Tag: Gartner

  • – Gartner Forecasts IT Spending in Europe to Grow 8.7% in 2025 – “Europe has seen a remarkable 46% increase in server spending by technology providers in 2024. In 2025, technology companies will continue building out the infrastructure needed for training GenAI models today and inferencing them in the future.”

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  • Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web for November 4th, 2024

    Links and strange finds from the World Wide Web for November 4th, 2024

    Code Neo (Pearl Sijmons), Joana Schneider, 2024. Relative to your interests Priorities CIOs Must Address in 2025, Insights from the 2025 Gartner CIO Survey – “only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed their business outcome targets. This statistic highlights a significant challenge for organizations aiming to achieve their digital transformation goals.” // It could…

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  • 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,…

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  • 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.”

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  • How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must

    How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must

    The DevOps community is running on fumes and at the lowest point in mindshare and interest that it’s ever been at. This is stupid. The practices, tools, and mindset of DevOps are vital to how most organization run their software1 and DevOps has improved the way the software we use everyday is built and run,…

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  • 3 ways CIOs can turn strategy into execution – “Less than half of enterprises reach the majority of the strategic goals IT leaders set out to achieve, according to Gartner research.”

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  • Selling shoes on the internet, the risks of waterfall enterprise AI

    Selling shoes on the internet, the risks of waterfall enterprise AI

    Just links and wastebook today. Relative to your interests Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability – All these years later, Spring is still in wide use and still evolving. ‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions – Not that many, but interesting. Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects…

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  • Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects Will Be Abandoned After Proof of Concept By End of 2025 – ”At least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs or unclear business value, according to…

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  • Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks – From Gartner! But, not much of a slam dunk either way as this promotional post doesn’t put out many numbers pro or con. “The benefits prove to be modest at best, and amid a rising well-being crisis, waning trust between employees and their employers, and a competitive…

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  • Platform Engineering is just adding Product Management to Ops

    Platform Engineering is just adding Product Management to Ops

    I don’t know. I’ve been trying to sort out what platform engineering is for awhile.1 It matters a lot for my job! While I haven’t verified it, it seems like it started as a marketing campaign from Humanitec and then took on a life of its own. Now the likes of Gartner have practice areas…

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  • Gartner Survey Shows 66% of Finance Leaders Think Generative AI Will Have Most Immediate Impact on Explaining Forecast and Budget Variances – What’s also remarkable is how low they rate other use cases. I’m a bit confounded about reports that consulting firms are getting billions in sales in AI stuff.

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  • Developer productivity metrics, 1970s sausage fonts, only the “grown and sexy” are welcome

    Developer productivity metrics, 1970s sausage fonts, only the “grown and sexy” are welcome

    Once again, I am bringing you only links and funny pieces of text. Relative to your interests Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 – “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs.…

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  • How CIOs can ease the generative AI transition for developers – “AI-powered coding tools are expected to become fairly ubiquitous within enterprises in the next four years, according to Gartner research. The analyst firm predicts around three-quarters of software engineers will add AI coding assistants to their workflows by 2028, a considerable jump from the…

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  • 3 Kubernetes Market-Sizes: mid to low single digit billions ~5 years from now.

    3 Kubernetes Market-Sizes: mid to low single digit billions ~5 years from now.

    Kubernetes is popular. If you’re in my business, you know that it’s widely considered to be how enterprises run and will their applications. So, it must be a huge market right? Lots of money flowing around. Well…not really! Let’s look at some numbers: “The container management market has seen accelerated growth of 28.6% over the…

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  • How to play Solo D&D with ChatGPT…three months later

    I’ve played solo D&D with ChatGPT for three months. It’s not that great at the pure mechanics (for example, combat), but it has some great uses. This video is a little screwed up, but the audio is fine, and the content is even better…if I don’t say so myself! Relative to your interests Coincidently for…

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  • What is a Kubernetes “distro,” and why are there so many of them?

    What is a Kubernetes “distro,” and why are there so many of them?

    Here’s the second little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Torsten says that last he counted, there were over 140…

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  • Don’t freak out too much about Kubernetes and security, it’s just like any new technology that’s early in usage

    Don’t freak out too much about Kubernetes and security, it’s just like any new technology that’s early in usage

    … Here’s a little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talked about security concerns with Kubernetes. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to my work. Not enough failure yet to be perfect As ever with…

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  • The container management market is $1.6bn in 2022, going to $3.6bn in 2027

    The container management market is $1.6bn in 2022, going to $3.6bn in 2027

    Suggested theme song. Just links and fun finds today. Relevant to your interests VMware named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant – Nice spot for VMware in the MQ. // This is a pretty small market! Hopefully the market is selling around container management, the stacks of app dev support above it, and…

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  • IT spending soars, generative AI investments barely leave a mark – These forecasts have been confusing in recent years. They’re always increasing, and yet the trends are always cost savings: ‘“Digital business transformations are beginning to morph,” said Lovelock. “IT projects are shifting from a focus on external-facing deliverables such as revenue and customer experience,…

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  • Adopt Platform Engineering to Scale Application Security Practices – “Gartner Survey Data Reveals a Missed Opportunity – Platform teams focus on improving developer experience, developer productivity, software quality and delivery speed. According to Gartner’s 2022 Software Engineering Leaders Role Survey, only 25% of respondents cited “reduced security risks’’ as one of the top three goals…

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