Tag: Gartner
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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
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
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
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
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”
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
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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Link: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things are changing…
How Gartner “cool vendors” are selected. Original source: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things are changing…
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Link: Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don’t want it
“In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using blockchain and only 8 per cent plan to experiment with it in the short term. “In contrast, a third of the 293 respondents said they had no interest in blockchain, and a further 43 per cent…
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Link: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 21.4 Percent in 2018
“The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21.4 percent in 2018 to total $186.4 billion, up from $153.5 billion in 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. The fastest-growing segment of the market is cloud system infrastructure services (infrastructure as a service or IaaS), which is forecast to grow 35.9 percent in 2018 to…
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Link: Gartner: IT spending to hit $3.7 trillion thanks to record 6.2% growth in 2018
“This is the highest annual growth rate that Gartner has forecast since 2007 and would be a sign of a new cycle of IT growth,” said John-David Lovelock, a research vice president at Gartner. “However, spending on IT around the world is growing at expected levels and is in line with expected global economic growth.…
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Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Business Value or Benefits Realization Is the Leading IT Cost-Optimization Priority for CIOs
Saving money to spend it on new, growth driving projects: “The survey findings highlight how cost optimization has become a business-focused, continuous discipline that drives spending and cost reduction, while maximizing business value (see Figure 1),” said Stewart Buchanan, research vice president at Gartner. “It’s not enough to simply reduce IT spending; CIOs must reinvest…