Today’s IT Infrastructure has to respond to many demands: Digital, SMAC, market growth, everything as a service, and more. The result: Today’s IT Infrastructure is becoming invisible – to deliver utility based infrastructure services that can be easily consumed.In broad terms there are 15 key trends to consider:
Public cloud will accelerate
Open Source will be more prevalent
Containers will be a standard platform
Security will remain a key requirement
Hybrid will be the dominant cloud model
Automation to ensure Infra can speed up
Microsegmentation to provide better security
DevOps and Continuous Integration will be King
Physical Server performance will further increase
Open Compute will disrupt today’s Hardware vendors
Infrastructure will move more into an Utility & Lego basedModel
Infrastructure Orchestration will be key to respond to Utility demand
Microservices will become the new way of constructing most applications
Software-Anything will accelerate the move to software only infrastructure
IoT will drive the need of more data store and reporting / analytical capabilities
Don't Ignore IT Infrastructure
Invisibly does not mean infrastructure can be ignored; to become invisible, infrastructure has to become software so it can be orchestrated, accelerated, secured and consumed in an utility fashion.
The idea is to develop blueprint based infrastructure capabilities that can be combined to create any solution construct using a Lego-based approach.
For many organisations the Future of Infrastructure will not arrive in a single step – many will have to follow a 4 steps transformation plan to move from a monolithic and or Service oriented to an invisible infrastructure:
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