Stepping into the digitally instrumented and interconnected era

Abstract

Abstract This chapter is to tell all about the digitization-inspired possibilities and opportunities and how software-defined cloud centers are the best fit for hosting and running digital applications. Also, how the next-generation data analytics can be smartly accomplished through cloud platforms and infrastructures is also explained in detail. We are to describe some of the impactful developments and technological advancements brewing in the IT space, how the tremendous amount of data getting produced and processed through cloud systems is to impact the IT and business domains, and how next-generation IT infrastructures are accordingly getting refactored, remedied and readied for the impending big data-induced challenges, how likely the move of the data analytics discipline toward fulfilling the digital universe requirements of extracting and extrapolating actionable insights for the knowledge-parched is, and finally for the establishment and sustenance of the dreamt smarter planet. In short, the uninhibited explosion of digitized systems and connected devices pour out a tremendous amount of multi-structured data and the impending challenge is to make sense out of the data heaps. Data analytics is the way to go and in the recent past, the overwhelming trend is to empower our everyday systems with machine and deep learning algorithms to automatically learn out of data heaps and streams in order to be distinctively intelligent in their actions and reactions. This chapter is specially prepared to put a stimulating foundation for explaining the nitty-gritty of the Digital Twin paradigm.