Citi taps Google Cloud for app migration, AI adoption - “As evidence of progress, CFO Mark Mason pointed to 450 apps retired by the bank since the start of the year. Citi has reduced tech sprawl by eliminating 1,250 apps in the last two years, Mason said.” // Thinks of all the zombie apps like that across every organization in the world.
How PostgreSQL is Dominating AI and Multicloud - Postgres never goes away.
Platform Engineering: Why You’re Doing It Wrong - Hopefully also how to do to real right.
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 9.3% in 2025 - Setting expectations: “CIOs will begin to spend on GenAI, beyond proof-of-concept work, starting in 2025. More money will be spent, but the expectations that CIOs have for the capabilities of GenAI will drop. The reality of what can be accomplished with current GenAI models, and the state of CIO’s data will not meet today’s lofty expectations."
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2024 Predictions - “Application modernization has been a nagging problem for decades but has recently emerged as a critical concern for enterprises, with around 62% of organizations worldwide considering it a high or top priority today, and over 70% expecting it to be a high or top priority in the next 24–36 months.” // “With 50% of CEOs concerned about their company’s cloud spending and 64% of CIOs say they are spending more on cloud than budgeted” (IDC, 2023)
The Future of Smart Rings - “In the last full year of data, 2023, IDC recorded Global Ring sales of 880,000 units, with Oura representing 80% and Ultrahuman in second with 12%. We are forecasting this to rise to 1.7 million in 2024 and 3.2 million in 2028, equating to a year-over-year growth rate of 29.5%. For comparison, the total global Smartwatch sales in 2023 were roughly 161 million devices, forecasted to rise to 175 million by 2028, an average year-over-year growth rate of 1.7%."
Don’t Click Here - I’ve gone go back and forth on this over the decades. Like every other good little HTML’er in the 90s, I would link the words in a sentence that indicated what the link went to. I kept doing this in the 2000s. But then in the 2010’s when we started treating the web less like documents and more like, I don’t know, like web of apps, the idea of telling people to “click here” seemed more obvious. And in the 2020’s, I don’t use it at much, but a click here is sometimes more natural especially when you’re doing a CTA. That is: I accept that sometimes “click here” style linking is OK and maybe even the best choice. Still, if you were to pick one, I’d go with avoiding “click here” linking.
Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2024 Orlando: Day 3 Highlights - “By 2028, more than 50% of enterprises will not get value from their multicloud implementations.” And: “By 2028, cloud-native platforms will serve as the foundation for more than 95% of new digital initiatives — up from less than 50% in 2023."
The Other Bubble - What the enterprise software market looks like from the outside. Also with a side of AI-washing.