Tag: Gartner

  • 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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  • ‘Zero trust’ was supposed to revolutionize cybersecurity. Here’s why that hasn’t happened yet. – ’John Watts, a Gartner analyst, wrote in the firm’s annual predictions memo from last December that “moving from theory to practice with zero trust is challenging,” and that fewer than 1% of large enterprises are actually using it today…. Moreover, Watts…

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  • Gartner’s Enterprise Value Equation for Business Value of Platform Engineering – Metrics and attributes to use to measure platform effectiveness.

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  • What Is Platform Engineering, and What Does It Do? – Lori Perri at Gartner defines platform engineering (Oct 2022): “In short: Platform engineering implements reusable tools and self-service capabilities with automated infrastructure operations, improving the developer experience and productivity. This technology approach utilizes reusable configurable application components and services. The benefit to users is in…

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  • Platform Engineering is just CI/CD infused with enterprise goop (jk…I think?)

    Platform Engineering is just CI/CD infused with enterprise goop (jk…I think?)

    Midjourney: a datacenter filled with clouds in the style of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Just when you thought (perhaps, hoped) we finally had an understanding of what “platform engineering” is, Gartner and Forrester came out with a Magic Quadrant and a Wave that re-confuses the category. Or, if you like, helps bring more clarity to…

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  • Some UK digital transformation retros

    Some UK digital transformation retros

    Just links this episode. Some fantastic #gartnercore From “Technical Insights: Battle of the APIs — Will REST be Toppled by GraphQL, gRPC or AsyncAPI?,” Gary Olliffe, Gartner Relative to your interests Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) – As with most things, the whole SBOM push is probably a lot simpler to solve…

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  • Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes

    Kubernetesless is just someone else’s Kubernetes

    Read to the end to see an illustration of the inner workings of cloud infrastructure. For all the interest in Kubernetes, there’s not actually many apps running on it right now. Gartner’s Wataru Katsurashima estimates that “by 2027, 25 percent of all enterprise applications will run in containers, an increase from fewer than 10 percent…

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  • Gartner Says Four Trends are Shaping the Future of Cloud, Data Center and Edge Infrastructure – Some predictions about how organizations will do public cloud stuff, if you’re into Gartner predictions. Here is one on migrating apps to public cloud: ‘The focus of refactoring cloud infrastructure should be on optimizing costs by eliminating redundant, overbuilt…

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  • Stop worrying about cloud-lock-in, and outages, Gartner – Perhaps there’s enough good in choosing a single vendor (per app and group of apps, at least) that, like, you should.

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  • Gartner Says Layoffs May Ultimately Harm Shareholder Returns – After firing people to lower costs, the remaining staff have to do more work, either demanding more pay of getting demoralized and seeking another job. Also, if you want to grow revenue, you’ll need more staff, so you’ll hire contractors, and eventually want to hire back…

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  • Kubernetes marketshare across cloud and on-premises, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 survey

    Kubernetes marketshare across cloud and on-premises, from the State of Kubernetes 2023 survey

    This is from our recent survey. There were 752 respondents, all working at companies of over 1,000 employees, with “about a third (34%) have between 100 and 1,000 developers, 8% have 1,000 to 2,500 developers, and 20% have more than 2,500 developers.” I’ve been writing up a series of blog posts and accompanying videos looking…

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  • Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS

    Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS

    MidJourney: man who is sick with children crawl all over him, sitting on a green couch, cinematic, 8k, dutch angle, action dramatic epic. I’m in the middle of some kind of cold today, so I’m spending most of my time staring at the wall or sleeping.1 This means it’s a good time to catch up…

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  • “catatonic leadership”

    “catatonic leadership”

    Found by my mother! 2023 IT Spending Forecasts from Gartner and Forester – software and cloud stuff has good/OK growth Summary: There’s always money in the banana stand. Gartner’s IT spend prediction: Worldwide IT spending is projected to total \$4.5 trillion in 2023, an increase of 2.4% from 2022, according to the latest forecast by…

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  • Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS

    Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS

    From the report “Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Platform Engineering,” Paul Delory and Oleksandr Matvitskyy, Gartner, Oct 2022. The authors don’t take a strong position here (?), but I think their vision of platform engineering sits above the infrastructure layer. See the diagram above, for example. The platform engineering group doesn’t mess with that stuff. This…

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  • 🗂 Link: With Heptio and Pivotal, VMware Doubles Down on Kubernetes

    The company introduced VMware Tanzu, a marketing name for a portfolio of products and services, existing and new, that will help enterprises build modern applications, run Kubernetes with consistency across environments, and manage all their Kubernetes clusters from a single control point. It will encompass aspects of its recent purchase of Bitnami, a library of…

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  • Link: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed, which compris

    Just over half of government IT work relies on outsourcing, 10% higher than private sector average: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them…. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed,…

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  • Link: The New Affluents

    Time to reap: “Several traits about the new affluents distinguish them as ideal prospective customers for brands of all sectors. In particular, luxury brands looking to woo customers with a little extra in their pockets might find this group a good place to start. Gen Xers’ share of national wealth is forecast to grow from…

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  • Link: Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Percent in 2017

    “The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016” Original source: Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Percent in 2017

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  • Link: Gartner Says Employees in Germany Report Lower Discretionary Effort than Global Average

    “German employees’ discretionary effort fell below the global industry average, according to the latest worldwide research by Gartner. High employee discretionary effort, which is the willingness to go above and beyond in one’s job, was reported by 12.6 percent of employees in Germany in 1Q18, a nearly four percentage point drop from the previous quarter…

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