Device Mesh Has Set The Ball Rolling in The IT World

According to the research and advisory firm Gartner Inc.’s Vice President David Cearley, we are heading toward a new 'post-app' era, in which we are going to live amidst a 'device mesh' — the web of wearable and mobile devices and Internet of Things (IOT) sensors that people use to find information or communicate online.  The big question is, how are tech-firms going to reap the advantage of this emerging technology trend? It is beyond any doubt that device mesh will open up new horizons for the players in the technology field, as, according to Gartner, a growing set of endpoints beyond traditional mobile devices are going to revolutionize the 'connection models'. This will not only prompt the emergence of greater cooperative interaction between devices, but will also subsequently cause a 'merging of the physical and virtual worlds'. It's needless to say that starting from development through implementation and support, the IT services will have to evolve to cope with the change. By 2018 there will be about 6 billion 'connected things', and the one thing people won't be able to do without is rigorous IT support. Tampa, a thriving technology hub in south Florida, is all set to capitalize on the new opportunities that digital mesh is likely to trigger.

The Post-App Era Is Not the End of Apps but a New Beginning for Tech Firms
 

The device mesh, which is a spin-off from the IoT, ‘will ultimately tie-in augmented and virtual reality as well as experiences that are always on’, the Editor-in-Chief of the tech news website ZDNet, Larry Dignan observed. In this post-app era, virtual services will be a reality.  They will become invisible services, running in the background, connecting the different devices and supporting data-exchange without the end user even being aware of the whole process. Consumers will no longer have to bother about the compatibility and functionality of the apps. So how do they come to know about technical issues and how do they report and repair them? This will not be a problem as the future IoT devices are expected to be capable of sending service requests and receiving it instantly. As a result, support services will have to become more intelligent.

IT decision makers across the US have already started to align their service offering to the post-app-era requirements.  The highly flexible and adaptive IT support segment in Tampa is no exception. Tech-firms here are exploring the ways of evolving their offerings to address their clients' needs when automation becomes widespread and apps become 'invisible'.