Tag: IT
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Link: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs
Gartner “predicted that, by 2020, 75% of organisations will experience visible business disruptions because of I&O skills gaps – a big jump from less than 20% in 2016.” Original source: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs
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Link: Technology that we don’t realize we’re thankful for
‘To start with, there are the infrastructural systems that fill out the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid of needs: clean water on tap, the ability to flush away disease-causing waste, natural gas for warmth and food preparation, and raw energy in the form of electricity, for heat and light, to replace physical labor, and to power…
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Link: Why is Everything a “Platform”?
Manage IT as a product, not a project, and things will go better: “we are finding the concepts of product and platforms very useful for establishing governance. As companies move to agile development, they quickly realize the power of treating their applications or web/device apps as products with a well understood customer to keep happy…
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Link: Datadog log monitoring software branches out as DevOps spreads
‘Enterprises initially implemented DevOps within specialized groups that owned a specific application and chose their own IT management tools, said Nancy Gohring, analyst at 451 Research. “Then one day, the enterprise woke up and saw it had 50 different tools, and in some cases, multiple instances of the same tool, each managed by different people,”…
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Link: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018, Driven by Mid-Market Demand for Software and Services, According to IDC
For companies under 1,000 people, IDC “forecasts total IT spending by small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to be nearly $602 billion in 2018, an increase of 4.9% over 2017. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% for the 2016-2021 forecast period, spending by businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees on IT hardware, software,…
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Link: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech
“[W]e shouldn’t have to depend on journalism to do the tedious, serious work of understanding the problems with algorithms any more than we depend on it to pursue the latest questions in sociology or environmental science.” More: “There is essentially no distinct field of academic study that takes seriously the responsibility of understanding and critiquing…
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Link: Will UK lose global business and tech leader status post-Brexit?
‘James Governor, Analyst at RedMonk said: “Brexit will be the biggest systemic shock to British business in the more than 70 years. The scale of change will require an unprecedented investment in IT, with in-house application development becoming more important than ever to deal with complexity.”’ Original source: Will UK lose global business and tech…
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Link: Brexit could see UK lose status as global business leader
“The study also suggests that software might be the solution to these upcoming problems. Almost all (93 per cent) of CIOs and 84 per cent of ITDMs have said that the ability to create their own software is essential for preparing an organisation for the effects of Brexit.” Original source: Brexit could see UK lose…
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Link: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail
Original source: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail
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Link: Largest insurers plan biggest IT budget increases
“Thirty-six percent of those reported premium over $1 billion per year; those companies also said they planned to increase IT budgets by about 11% on average. Carriers between $500 million and $1 billion in premium plan an average increase of 5%.” Original source: Largest insurers plan biggest IT budget increases
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Link: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates
Original source: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates
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Link: GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey
“Large enterprises expect to get an average 246 GDPR enquiries per month, for which they will need to search 43 databases (seven minutes per search). They will spend more than 1,259 hours on this, which equates to nearly 60 hours of searches per working day or 7.5 employees dedicated solely to GDPR enquiries.” It’s a…
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Link: DevOps, Software-Defined Infrastructure, and the CMDB’s Perception Problem
“Unfortunately, the ITSM community often seems to suffer from a collective lack of awareness and understanding of the history and culture of DevOps. There is little dialog between the communities (worryingly to me, I still typically find myself being the only ITSM person at almost every one of these events).” Original source: DevOps, Software-Defined Infrastructure,…
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Link: Appian survey: Big obstacles to digital transformation
Vendor survey done with 463 respondants over on DevOps.com, good news topics: “A lack of IT skills was reported by 82 percent; 91 percent are struggling with technical debt; 20 percent have huge application backlogs of more than 50 new app requests; and 72 per cent said they don’t have confidence in being able to…
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Link: GDPR compliance – here are the 14 things you actually need to do
Exciting new audit needs ahead, hoss: “Organisations should review their IT systems and procedures to check they comply with GDPR requirements for privacy by design, ensuring only the minimum amount of personal data necessary is processed. Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) should be completed when using new technologies and the data processing is likely to result…
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Link: Whither the DBA
“In every case in which a CIO or other executive has driven or authorized substantial investments in service-based database infrastructure, changes in DBA roles have followed. As two financial industry executives put it at a conference in Jersey City and re:Invent, respectively, their DBAs are all being moved to doing more generic DevOps-style roles, roles…
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Link: Complexity bolsters valuations for infrastructure software
In a recent 451 Research survey: “between 2017 and 2019 the amount of IT workloads running on the cloud is expected to increase to 60% from 45%.” Original source: Complexity bolsters valuations for infrastructure software
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Link: With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service
“With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but has hit a patch of growth recently. As of September, we believe the company was on track to finish 2017 with roughly $10m in billings, up from mid-single digits in 2016. Founded in 2009 with a mission of offering…
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Link: Green light for IT spending in 2018
“fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That was the highest reading since 2007, and 13 basis points higher than the average survey response for the month of November for the previous five years” Original source: Green light for IT spending in 2018
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Link: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 – SiliconANGLE
Gartner says: “businesses will spend nearly $3.7 trillion on information technology hardware, software and services in 2018, up 4.5 percent [y/y]” Original source: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 – SiliconANGLE
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