Assessment Item: Emerging Technologies(around 3000 words)In this assessment, you will learn about emerging technologies and identify innovation oppo
Assessment Item: Emerging Technologies(around 3000 words)In this assessment, you will learn about emerging technologies and identify innovation opportunities and ethical issues when using these technologies.
You are required to read the following articles:
Theme: Pervasive cloud
These technologies focus on how cloud computing will evolve and become an important driver of business innovation. They are reimagining the cloud at the edge, making it more vertically integrated and enabling industry-relevant solutions. Maximizing value from cloud investments will require automated operational scaling, access to cloud-native platform tools and adequate governance.
Industry cloud platforms exemplify pervasive cloud, and address industry-relevant business outcomes by combining underlying SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services into a whole product offering with composable capabilities. These typically include an industry data fabric, a library of packaged business capabilities, composition tools and other platform innovations. IT leaders can use the composability of these platforms to be adaptable and agile in response to accelerating disruption. They will take five to 10 years to reach mainstream adoption.
Other critical technologies in pervasive cloud include:
Augmented FinOps, which applies the traditional DevOps concepts of agility, continuous integration and deployment, and end-user feedback to financial governance, budgeting and cost optimization efforts.
Cloud development environments (CDEs), providing remote, ready-to-use access to a cloud-hosted development environment with minimal effort for setup and configuration.
Cloud sustainability, the use of cloud services to achieve sustainability benefits within economic, environmental and social systems.
Cloud-native, which refers to something created to optimally leverage or implement cloud characteristics that are part of the original definition of cloud computing, and include capabilities delivered as a service.
Cloud-out to edge, an architectural construct where a centrally managed cloud environment, typically a hyperscale cloud, provides cloud service capabilities that are extended to edge environments.
WebAssembly (Wasm), a lightweight virtual-stack machine and binary code format designed to support secure, high-performance applications on webpages.
After reading these articles, you will choose one of the emerging technologies mentioned and investigate it further. You will then write a substantive report on the emerging technology of your choice, which should be around 3000 words in length (excluding references).
A suggested structure for your report could be as follows:
Title
Technology Overview
Definition and Nature
Historical Background
Present State of Development and Gartner Hype Cycle Position
Other Pertinent Details
SWOT Analysis of the Technology
Current Utilisations and Applications, including Innovations and
Ethical Considerations
Present Level of Maturity and Future Forecasts
References (conforming to IEEE style)
Each criterion below shows its weighing for this report assignment:
Description of the technology: 16%
SWOT analysis: 17%
Coverage (depth and breadth) of current uses and applications
(ethical issues need to be discussed): 17%
Evaluation of Current Maturity, Future Predictions, and Gartner
Hype Cycle Position: 20%
Structure & organisation: 17%
References (using IEEE referencing style): 13% - See:
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Rubric:
Description of the technology 16%: Exhibiting outstanding level of description details including definition, history and current state.
SWOT analysis 17%: Exhibiting outstanding level of SWOT analysis clearly identifying all strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities.
Coverage of current uses and applications (including ethical issues) 17%: Exhibiting outstanding level of coverage identifying extensive breadth and depth of uses and applications.
Evaluation of Current Maturity, Future Predictions, and Gartner Hype Cycle Position 20%: Exhibiting outstanding level of explanation, future predictions, and insight into technology's development and Gartner hype cycle position, supported by sound justifications.
Structure and organisation 17%: Outstanding structure covering all required sections and necessary information.
