
Automation to be the Cornerstone of Future-ready digital infrastructure
CIO Review APAC | Thursday, January 15, 2026

FREMONT, CA: Businesses and government agencies will need to speed up the modernization of their IT infrastructure and operations in the coming two to three years to maintain a competitive advantage. The ability to align to the digital paradigm depends on investing in next-generation cloud-native IT infrastructure technologies, platforms, and solutions and how CIOs will assist in the transformation to autonomous IT operations using AI/ML technologies, delivering business resilience, agility, flexibility, and adaptability.
Due to the rapid proliferation of data-driven edge workloads, the increasing number of ransomware and malware attacks, and the explosive growth in the volume of structured and unstructured data, most C-Suite executives will implement business-critical KPIs tied to data availability, recovery, and stewardship by 2023. This, according to IDC, will assist in keeping data-driven innovation alive. If they aim to align to digital business outcomes, SLAs, and KPIs, CIOs and IT decision-makers will need to undertake some severe thinking beyond upgrading technological building blocks and platforms.
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One of the cornerstones of the digital infrastructure paradigm will be a cultural and mentality shift, which will go well beyond just adopting cloud as the de facto delivery platform or leveraging OPEX-based as-a-service IT consumption models. According to Rajnish Arora, Vice President Enterprise Infrastructure Research at IDC Asia/Pacific, Digital Infrastructure symbolizes the start of a new age for IT decision-makers to make an indelible mark in helping their organization lead into the future.
These predictions for the Future of Digital Infrastructure guide CIOs and IT Infrastructure decision-makers on how to accelerate infrastructure modernization and transformation to autonomous operations delivering ubiquitous service experiences across a variety of cloud destinations, from the core data center to edge infrastructure. By 2024, A2000 executives will put business goals ahead of infrastructure choices, deploying half of the new strategic workloads using vendor-specific APIs that bring value but limit workload mobility.
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