The year 2022 has closed. To open the 2023 chapter, IT for Business retraces the IT innovations that marked 2022 and that will have an important echo for CIOs in 2023…
While CIOs are likely to start 2023 with the same intensity as the end of 2022, when the year was marked by geopolitical, economic, energy and cybersecurity crises.
We invite you here to return to some key news of 2022 that will have repercussions in 2023. They can show important technological trends in the months to come, or influence their daily life in the more or less long term, or influence their choices. of the partners…
Suspenseful takeovers
The year 2022 was marked by some major acquisitions and mergers in the IT universe. In January 2022 we learned the ransom of the French ESN Inetum for 2 billion euros from an American fund.
And when finally NVidia has thrown in the towel in an attempt to buy ARMwe learned in May of the willingness to Broadcom buys VMware for 61 billion dollars. An acquisition that needs to be validated (or not) in 2023 by regulators even if CIOs continue to show their concern after Broadcom’s previous two rather disastrous acquisitions of Symantec and CA.
In February 2022, Citrix was acquired for $16.5 billion by the Vista fund announcing the merger of Citrix and Tibco Software into one entity in September to create a new leader in enterprise software.
In March 2022, Google formalizes its intention to acquire Mandiant for $5.4 billion as Microsoft eyed the company. Enough for Google to ramp up its efforts to secure multicloud approaches, but also likely to create a buzz in the Zero Trust solutions market in 2023.
Obviously two other acquisitions mark 2022. The first is precisely the Hollywood one of Elon Musk’s Twitter which not only endangers the billionaire’s empire but also strongly shakes the universe of social networks. The second is that of Activision-Blizzard of Microsoft for 70 billion dollars. What was billed as the largest acquisition of the Redmond company and the largest deal in Tech’s history has become a soap opera with a twist, especially since the FTC decided to oppose this acquisition. But a failure of this transaction could weaken Microsoft beyond the video game market.
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The world is entering the Exascale era
The publication in May 2022 of the new “TOP500.org” ranking formalized the world’s entry into the exascala era. If the American Frontier was still alone at the top of the TOP500 last November, Europe featured two HPCs in the TOP 5 for the first time in a long time with its LUMI (designed by HPE Cray) and Leonardo (designed by Atos).
A good place that should be difficult to keep in 2023, when the US should turn on its second exascale computer, the Aurora of the Argonne National Laboratory, and the Chinese could formalize the performance of both the Sunway Oceanlite and the Tianhe-3 suspects greater than 1000 petaflops.
Europe reacted by announcing funding for the forthcoming construction of two exascale computers, the first of which, JUPITER, will take office in 2024 if all goes well. He will be installed at the FZJ research center in Jülich, Germany. The second European exascale HPC has not yet been confirmed but could become part of the TGCC (Very Large Computing Center) of the CEA in Saclay.
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The quantum in the European version
The other avenue for the future of HPC is quantum computing. The year 2022 has been quite busy for European players and especially for French players.
France was launched in January its “HQI” initiative. (Hybrid Quantum Initiative) aimed at merging quantum accelerators with HPCs within the TGCC-GENCI. In June, we learned that the French startup Pasqal had been selected to deliver 2 100 Qubit quantum computers to HQI.
2022 was also an intense year for Pasqal who, since January, announced its merger with the Dutch startup Qu&Co known for her work on quantum algorithms and quantum machine learning applications. In May, Pasqal formalized its first quantum cloud platform hosted at OVHcloud and called “ Pasqal cloud services “.
There has also been talk of other French quantum players. In November, Whenela imitated Pasqal and launched its own quantum cloud service based on its 5 Qubit machine.
In March, Alice&Bob has announced a fundraiser 27 million euros to build its first quantum computer.
Europe therefore does not admit defeat and carries out various initiatives in different directions thanks to its research centers and start-ups. most recent, interconnection of one of its HPCs (the Lumi) with a quantum machine (the HELMI-Perla of the Finnish MTB).
Across the Atlantic, IBM is pursuing its ambitious quantum roadmap and introduced its Osprey 433 Qubits processor which still needs to be made more reliable to deliver on its promises.
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Words and Acts
In its quest for digital sovereignty, Europe has worked hard to assert itself new rules so as not to play on those of the Americans in particular. It has strengthened its legislative arsenal with notably the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Data Governance Act (DGA) which will come into force in 2023 and will have multiple impacts on CIOs.
Without forgetting of course all the debates around sovereign clouds and the strategic role they will play in 2023 SecNumCloud Certification of the ANSI.
Having become a legal puzzle for multinationals since the invalidation of the Privacy Shield, the transfer of personal data between the US and Europe could finally be formalized again following a new agreement in sight between the USA and Europe on private data announced in March and confirmed in November by Joe Biden. However, this deal could come to naught in 2023 if the two sides fail to figure out a way to protect these exchanges from US state surveillance.
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AIs go one step further
Finally, and this is obvious, AI will play an increasingly fundamental role in users’ daily lives. 2022 was marked by the availability of generative AIs that demonstrated both the new potential of artificial intelligence and the spectacular advances made in this field. ChatGPT has drawn a lot of ink since this AI was presented in December. But this is just one of many: Dall-E, Point-E, StableDiffusion, MidJourney, CoPilot, Alphacode, etc.
It is important that CIOs take a close interest in these innovations which will infiltrate the daily lives of users, creatives and developers in 2023, but which will also raise many Copyright issues. CIO from which to draw inspiration the ethical charter for AI publishers published in 2022 by XXII to guide their initiatives. Waiting for Europe to finalize its long-awaited “Artificial Intelligence Act” in 2023.
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The pc gadin in 2022
After two euphoric years linked to lockdowns and a general implementation of teleworking, PC sales are growing again got the stock in 2022, with a return of more than 15%. Enough to affect the results of the Windows division of Intel and Microsoft despite the release of a Windows 11 that is very incompatible with the installed base. This lack of dynamism in the PC market impacts all manufacturers and hinders the migration to Windows 11.
Despite the renewal of PCs imposed by Windows 11, the renewal of Macs to switch to the ARM universe of M1/M2, the increase in competition on GPUs with the arrival of Intel, the drop in component prices induced by improved inventories , and I’m not sure if the PC market will take off again in 2023…
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