So, what are the new acronyms we hear today?
A while ago, starting a career in technology was probably a matter of choosing between being a software developer, managing network infrastructure or being close to the end user and providing technical support.
Recently, we started hearing more and more acronyms and if we look at the current technologies employed today, we realize the IT industry suffered a significant transformation. Maybe, it’s better to say the IT industry is transforming, we actually see both the old and the cutting-edge technologies coexisting.
I think the first one which came very fast and for a while was treatening the network industry, was the cloud.
I remember a few years ago, for a while network engineers were a bit worried for their jobs. The way cloud technologies were pushed, made people think all services will go in the cloud and there will be no work for network engineers. Everything was going virtual and the clasical corporate network structure core-distribution-access was becoming useless. Well, finally, we realised the right ballance is to send to the cloud the services which make sense to stay in the cloud and keep on premisses the rest of services. In short, most of the large companies ended up with a hybrid deployment.
Once the cloud established as a technology to stay, then we could say we experienced an explosion of technologies.
We started to hear about containers, docker, kubernetes and concepts like SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
In parallel, we noticed also the network infrastructure services strted to change.
More and more enterprises started to investigate how SD-WAN services could replace the MPLS links and save money.
All major networking vendors started to advertise SD-WAN solutions, each of them coming with advantages and less complexity.
During all this time, we also noticed a significant migration from clasic telephony services based on digital circuits to SIP based trunks over private circuits or over Internet.
And not lastly, we started to hear more and more about G5, Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E, technologies expected to change how data is transfered between the corporate networks.
Now, we cannot close cutting-edge technologies tour without mentioning IOT, AI and automation expansion.
We hear more and more about the AI implementation in the cloud or in relation with IOT. We also hear about automation products like Chef, Puppet, Terraform and Ansible. All of a sudden it’s almos critical to learn python and to understand json, yaml, jinja2, restconf and netconf.
Which way would you go today if you work in the IT industry?
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