3 Reasons IT Modernization is Critical for Companies Considering the Metaverse

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The Metaverse is a transformative evolution of the Internet into a community of people, in the form of digital avatars, populating enduring digital spaces to earn a living, connect, enjoy experiences, and claim ownership of their possessions and shared and individual digital assets. The digital world continues to rapidly evolve as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, blockchain and cloud computing technologies advance, enabling interactions highly personalized and deeply collaborative.

For companies with a legacy IT landscape assembled over decades and still relying on waterfall IT development, it stands to reason that the metaverse - a world where capabilities must emerge as quickly as users imagine them - is practically closed.

IT modernization is an urgent imperative for businesses looking to effectively learn, grow, and thrive in the metaverse.

Decentralize the heart of the company for more flexibility

Because the metaverse is a whole new world of emerging opportunities, it is not without unresolved complexities. Moving to Web3, based on the principles of decentralization and community ownership – which will compel custodians and IT managers to adopt – also means adopting agile, transparent and highly automated ways of working and relying on an elastic infrastructure. which allows them to do so.

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The days of computing landscapes such as walled gardens and enigmatic black boxes are numbered, as users of the metaverse seek to create, purchase, participate in, and monetize experiences that are limited only by the human imagination. It will no longer be useful for enterprises to create sophisticated cloud infrastructure and massive server capacity just for CIOs and their teams to manage. In the metaverse, every user is also a live, dynamic creator, responding to community requests in near real-time.

These users come together, unconstrained by highly centralized monolithic platforms and policies, to create scalable creative economies that are inherently interoperable and extremely data-rich that will create value greater than the sum of the parts.

As the metaverse ushers in the era of Web3, organizations must quickly modernize their core to meaningfully participate in this highly democratized creative universe.

Get ready to create and operate connected landscapes

Digital twins, mixed reality, and autonomous systems are converging through the power of the cloud and edge computing, creating new possibilities for businesses. Companies are exploring creating value for customers when living, data-rich digital twins of physical environments come together in mixed reality with the physical world. It means using the power of data analytics and data simulation to make autonomous decisions, actions and interactions in truly transformative ways.

For example, shop floor process flows can be adjusted and optimized in real time based on predictions based on data from the plant's digital twin. Metadata and me...