The future of IT: Keep an eye on machine learning - IBM IT Infrastructure Blog

What will IT look like a decade from now? We've seen enormous growth in big data and analytics in the past decade, and this area of technology will continue to transform how business is done. Not just that -- but machine learning breakthroughs will bring new ways of analyzing and using that data. To start us off thinking about the future of IT, let's divide IT into three segments based on how problems are solved: by manually coding a model, by collecting and comparing lots of examples, or by automatic modelling (AI and deep learning). Procedural data processing is what we've traditionally been doing in IT: Solving a problem by modelling its parameters, collecting the relevant data and calculating a singular result. We call it structured processing or "if…then" logic.