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Technology Corp.’s VP of Global Marketing Frank Jablonski reveals
his top technology predictions for 2020. The cloud’s inexorable path to
IT dominance will continue in 2020 with players from across the IT
industry accelerating their cloud-native development efforts. Included
are the cloud service providers and their enterprise customers, of
course, as well as application and system software vendors, and system
integrators.
Frank Jablonski outlines the following five major trends that guide his
predictions:
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence will deliver cost
savings through greater cloud efficiencies. Enterprises are
looking for application and cloud service providers to help them
operate more efficiently through the use of machine learning (ML) and
artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver more effective resource
management. Achieving this will require the environment or application
to understand when it needs more resources and then automatically
scaling up those resources to meet the increased demand. Conversely,
the technology will need to understand when specific resources are no
longer needed and safely turn them off to minimize costs. Today such
dynamic resource allocation can be unreliable or must employ an
inefficient manual process, forcing cloud customers to either spend
more than necessary or fall short of meeting service levels during
periods of peak demand. -
DevOps will transition companies to cloud-native
implementations. Enterprises will seek to take full advantage
of the cloud’s agility by re-architecting their application/technology
stacks to optimize them specifically for the cloud environment. IT
departments regularly use a “lift and shift” approach to migrating
applications to the cloud, but the effort still requires some changes
to ensure meeting desired service levels owing to some differences
between private and public infrastructures. After the initial wave of
migration to the cloud is optimized, DevOps will drive re-architecting
their application/technology stacks to a cloud-native implementation
to take further advantage of the cloud’s greater efficiency,
reliability, scalability and affordability. -
Application vendors will architect HA and DR into their core
solutions. Application vendors will endeavor to deliver
greater value and higher reliability by integrating core high
availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) features into their
solutions. Most applications today require the customer to provide
these protections separately, and most organizations do this for all
their applications with a general-purpose HA/DR solution. With HA
and/or DR built into an application as a standard feature, customers
will be able to simply deploy it on any platform in a private, purely
public or hybrid cloud environment. This will be especially beneficial
for smaller organizations that normally lack the expertise or
resources needed to implement and operate configurations capable of
eliminating all single points of failure. For cloud-native
implementations, the application vendor will want to take full
advantage of the resiliency afforded by the cloud’s multiple
availability zones and regions. -
DBaaS and cloud will become the preferred platform for database
deployments. IT organizations have traditionally chosen to
implement critical databases and applications in their own
datacenters, where the staff retains full control over the
environment. As the platforms offered by cloud service providers
(CSPs) have matured, the cloud has become commercially viable for
hosting critical applications, as well as Database-as-a-Service
(DBaaS). This viability is true even for complete suites, such as SAP,
that span virtually all of an organization’s departments and all of
its business functions. This change will put greater focus on
reliability, availability and performance of the applications, and
make the cloud more strategically important to companies. For CSPs who
deliver greater resilience through availability zones and geographic
diversity, it will be a way to secure long-term engagements with
customers. -
Resellers and system integrators will play an increasingly vital
role as critical applications move to the cloud. As the
migration of enterprise applications to the cloud accelerates and
matures, the need to ensure mission-critical high availability (HA)
will create opportunities for resellers and system integrators. This
window of opportunity is forming as enterprises seek more robust HA
solutions that have yet to be fully integrated into the application
and system software. Some system integrators may have the expertise
and resources needed to leverage open-source software in their Linux
offerings. But an increasing percentage will choose to integrate
solutions purpose-built to provide HA and disaster recovery
protections, as these have proven to be more dependable for the
customer, while also being just as (if not more) profitable for the
integrator.
According to Jablonski, “From service and solution providers to
enterprise DevOps, organizations will be re-architecting their
applications and technology stacks to cloud-native designs to take full
advantage of the cloud’s greater efficiency, reliability, scalability
and affordability. As these efforts progress, systems integrators will
enjoy a window of opportunity filling in the gaps and otherwise adding
value.”
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