SUSE releases technology trend predictions for 2025

Author: Vishal Ghariwala, CTO, SUSE Asia Pacific

Beijing – December 23 , 2024 Rapid technological developments are reshaping industries across Asia Pacific. By 2025 , businesses will face a complex environment of emerging threats and opportunities. To stay ahead in this dynamic environment, businesses must prioritize digital resilience , security , and innovation .

Cloud Native Observability: The Cornerstone of Digital Resilience

Currently, users of cloud-native environments often lack end-to-end visibility of infrastructure and application stacks, making it difficult to quickly discover and solve problems, which in turn affects the reliability and availability of services. It is expected that by 2025, users will pay more attention to cloud-native observability to view and correlate various events and indicators from infrastructure to applications in real time in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This will help them analyze data from the entire IT environment and detect anomalies and potential problems in a timely manner before problems escalate into accidents.

Improving digital resilience to system disruptions

In 2024, we have witnessed several major regional and global technology disruptions, such as Crowdstrike's global service disruption. This disruption trend will continue, prompting companies to develop IT strategies to respond to, adapt to, and recover from similar disruptions, including: reducing software concentration and vendor lock-in risks through diversified IT architectures, building backup technology stacks to handle failover, adopting multi-vendor solutions, and providing more options for critical infrastructure software such as operating systems and Kubernetes.

Zero Trust Security: A Shield Against Ransomware

Ransomware attacks increased dramatically in 2024, and this trend is expected to continue as criminals use AI to carry out more sophisticated attacks. The existence of ransomware as a service (RaaS) exacerbates this situation. By 2025, more companies are expected to invest in zero-trust security solutions to detect and prevent ransomware and other zero-day exploits.

Safe and Private Generative AI : Driving Innovation Responsibly

Companies adopting AI technologies face numerous security challenges, including privacy and data protection issues with generative AI, and vulnerabilities in the AI ​​supply chain. To address these risks, the adoption of private AI platforms will increase. These platforms enable enterprises to have full control over their data, protecting their operations from the growing threats of unauthorized data sharing, compliance risks, and abuse of “shadow AI.”

AI Observability: Optimizing Performance and Reducing Carbon Footprint

AI, especially large language models, requires a lot of energy to run, which will have a significant impact on carbon emissions. In order to optimize the energy consumption of AI workloads and reduce carbon emissions, enterprises will adopt a variety of strategies in the next few years, including: fine-tuning and optimizing large language models, eliminating their performance bottlenecks, choosing energy-efficient cloud service providers, and responsibly scaling AI resources. Observability tools will help drive and guide these efforts.

Standard operating environment for artificial intelligence: driving efficiency and innovation

Today, there are multiple options for running generative AI and other types of AI workloads. Over time, we expect most enterprises to create a standard operating environment for AI use cases. The environment will include a highly scalable general-purpose AI platform and provide common modules and services required for AI workloads, such as carefully selected large language models (LLMs), data privacy and security, observability, etc. The standard operating environment also ensures consistent governance, efficient workflows, and optimized resource usage, thereby helping to reduce carbon emissions.

In summary, in 2025 and beyond, companies that focus on digital resilience, security, and innovation will be better able to seize emerging opportunities and calmly respond to the various challenges of the digital age.