The report discusses the importance of virtualization and automation in managing IT infrastructure, which can become increasingly complex and difficult to manage. Virtualization allows for standardization, hiding complexity, and making deployment invisible, while automation weaves it all together, bypassing human activities and delivering infrastructure services in an instant. Containers are introduced as a solution to the challenges of infrastructure, packaging an application with the necessary infrastructure, middleware, and platform service components into a standardized box that can run on any cloud, server, or PC. 5G and fog computing are also discussed, pushing storage, processing, and connectivity power deeper into the physical world and further away from corporate data centers, making digital twins even more precise and trustworthy models.
