BENGALURU: The year 2015 has seen its share of new technologies and innovations but that doesn’t stop us from moving forward into the future. From the perspective of India’s information technology (IT) sector, we see the cloud, automation technology and mobile technology being the major trends this year, reports, livemint.com.

Network Virtualization:

It’s a process that combines hardware and software network resources and network functionality into a single, software-based administrative entity picking up in India in 2016. While software defined networks, wherein a network is automated, maintained and monitored, have been used for a while outside India, it is expected to become a reality in the country this year.

Artificial Intelligence (AI):

AI, at present, is primarily based on predefined codes and algorithms. This year will see ‘deep learning’ becoming more common where machines will start to learn by themselves at large by recognizing patterns in a way the human brain does. We can get a taste of AI in Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s Siri, Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana already pushing the boundaries, these technologies are going to become mainstream for enterprises in 2016.

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