Predictions 2022: AI Assistants, Automation, Network Security

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0:07 hey there this is jeff aaron vp of

0:09 enterprise marketing here at juniper if

0:11 i had to make three predictions for 2022

0:14 what would they be um number one i think

0:17 um

0:17 ai driven assistants are really gonna

0:20 more or less take over the

0:22 troubleshooting process and networks you

0:24 know they often say that radio killed a

0:26 video star and i think uh ai and nlp

0:29 natural language processing and nlu

0:31 understanding are gonna kill the

0:33 dashboard star um no more hunting and

0:35 pecking or looking at um you know charts

0:38 when you can literally just type in a

0:40 question and get an answer like google

0:42 or it'll tell you itself or actually fix

0:43 it self-driving so i think you're

0:45 definitely going to see a trend around

0:46 ai driven assistance that's really going

0:48 to change the way that we troubleshoot

0:50 and and more or less eliminate the

0:52 swivel chair

0:53 uh secondly uh obviously with other

0:55 things that's happening there's been

0:56 stash shortages and i think that impacts

0:58 everything and to the previous point ai

1:00 driven assistance help with that but i

1:02 think what we're especially seeing staff

1:03 shortages in is in the data center in

1:06 fact there's one report i saw where

1:07 about 47 50 percent of data center

1:11 companies with data centers couldn't

1:12 find proper staffing to really operate

1:15 those data centers and so that's going

1:17 to be a continued problem and i think in

1:19 response to that you're going to see

1:20 more and more automation

1:22 whether it's automated fabric management

1:24 or intent based networking or automated

1:27 assurance you can start to see that take

1:29 over more in the data center whereas in

1:30 the past it was a little bit more manual

1:32 um so i think that's a big trend we'll

1:34 see in in 2022 and then the third trend

1:36 is that uh the the lines between

1:38 networking and security are just going

1:40 to continue to be blurred um we always i

1:43 always use to say networking guys speak

1:44 one language and um you know security

1:46 guys speak another one's from venus

1:48 one's from mars and you really have to

1:50 in that today's day and age be bilingual

1:52 more than ever you know especially on

1:53 the on the edge right uh with things

1:56 like sassy just completely being blurred

1:58 you know companies that were

1:58 traditionally security companies are

2:00 getting getting into networking and vice

2:01 versa solutions really have to be

2:03 integrated in so for example security

2:06 every step of the way needs to be tied

2:07 in with routers and switches and access

2:09 points to make decisions and enforce

2:12 them across the whole you know connected

2:14 fabric and so i think that's a big trend

2:16 you'll see as well so the three trends

2:18 is ai driven assistance taking over and

2:20 and in many respects replacing the

2:21 dashboards staffing shortages especially

2:24 in the data center leading to automation

2:26 uh especially around fabric management

2:28 and intent based networking and lastly

2:30 the lines between networking and

2:31 security are going to continue to be

2:32 blurred especially as things like sassy

2:34 continue to emerge thank you

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