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GARTNER RELEASES 4 TRENDS THAT WILL IMPACT CLOUD, DATA CENTERS AND
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The tech trends will be shaped by economic and geopolitical pressures, and I&O
teams will play a vital role in ameliorating their effects, according to a
Gartner analyst.

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Enterprise infrastructure and operations teams will have to cope with economic
and geopolitical pressures as they pivot to support new technologies and ways of
working, according to new Gartner research about four trends that will impact
cloud, data center and edge infrastructure in 2023.

Gartner VP Analyst Paul Delory believes those external forces, and not IT
infrastructure, will be the biggest problems organizations face. Infrastructure
and operations teams “will have a vital role to play in ameliorating” their
effects, Delory said during Gartner’s recent IT Infrastructure, Operations &
Cloud Strategies conference, as quoted in a company press release. This will be
a year of “refocusing, retooling, and rethinking” infrastructure, he noted.

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TOP CLOUD, DATA CENTER AND EDGE INFRASTRUCTURE TRENDS


TREND 1: CLOUD TEAMS WILL OPTIMIZE AND REFACTOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

Even though the usage of public cloud is pervasive, many deployments are ad hoc
and poorly implemented. To make clouds more efficient, resilient and
cost-effective, I&O teams should reexamine infrastructure that was hastily
assembled or poorly architected.

Refactoring cloud infrastructure should focus on optimizing costs. This can be
done through a series of steps that starts with eliminating redundant, overbuilt
or unused cloud infrastructure, as well as building business resilience rather
than service-level redundancy; using cloud infrastructure as a way to mitigate
supply chain disruptions; and modernizing infrastructure.

The work will pay off: According to Gartner, 65% of application workloads will
be optimal or ready for cloud delivery by 2027, up from 45% in 2022.


TREND 2: NEW APPLICATION ARCHITECTURES WILL DEMAND NEW KINDS OF INFRASTRUCTURE

New and growing demands from new types of infrastructure — including edge
infrastructure for data-intensive use cases, non-x86 architectures for
specialized workloads, serverless edge architectures and 5G mobile service —
continually challenge I&O teams. Gartner predicts 15% of on-premises production
workloads will run in containers by 2026, up from less than 5% in 2022.

To prepare, I&O professionals must evaluate alternative options with care,
focusing on their ability to manage, integrate and transform in the face of
constraints on time, talent and resources. “Don’t revert to traditional methods
or solutions just because they’ve worked well in the past,” Delory advised, as
quoted in the press release. “Challenging periods are times to innovate and find
new solutions to meet business demands.”


TREND 3: DATA CENTER TEAMS WILL ADOPT CLOUD PRINCIPLES ON-PREMISES

Data centers are declining as organizations turn to platform-based co-location
providers. Used in tandem with new as-a-service models for physical
infrastructure can mimic cloud-like services with economic benefits in
on-premises infrastructure.

According to Gartner, 35% of data center infrastructure will be managed from a
cloud-based control plane by 2027, up from less than 10% in 2022. Three steps
I&O professionals should focus on this year:

 * Build cloud-native infrastructure within the data center.
 * Migrate workloads from owned facilities to co-location facilities or the
   edge.
 * Or, embrace as-a-service models for physical infrastructure.

In an interview with TechRepublic, Delory said consumption-b

ased pricing in the data center is becoming increasingly popular. “This allows
you to pay for hardware on an ongoing, monthly basis. It brings the economic
model closer to that of cloud, and it means you don’t have to write a big check
upfront for all your equipment.”

All the major hardware vendors have consumption-based pricing programs now, and
they encourage you to use them, he added.


TREND 4: ORGANIZATIONS THAT MAKE SKILL GROWTH THEIR HIGHEST PRIORITY WILL
SUCCEED

The biggest barrier to infrastructure modernization efforts is a lack of skills
and any organizations finding they cannot hire outside talent to fill skills
gaps. Unless IT organizations prioritize organic skill growth, they will not
succeed, the firm cautions.

Operations skill growth must be I&O leaders’ highest priority this year, Gartner
said.

Further, they should encourage I&O professionals to take on new roles as site
reliability engineers or subject matter expert consultants for developer teams
and business units. Gartner predicts 60% of data center infrastructure teams
will have relevant automation and cloud skills by 2027, up from 30% in 2022.


MORE IT TIPS ABOUT COSTS, SUPPLY CHAIN AND STRATEGIES

There are other steps IT organizations should take from a strategic and cost
perspective, Delory said. Observing that tech buying power has largely shifted
to business units and that “IT is no longer the technology vending machine,” he
said the job of I&O teams is to work with technology buyers to help them make
the right infrastructure decisions.

“We are transitioning to be almost internal consultants who help non-technical
business buyers make good technology decisions,” he said.

In terms of cost controls, in the cloud, applications should be refactored to
use cloud-native principles such as migrating to serverless or serverless
container architectures rather than using virtual machines, he recommended.


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“This is how you get the maximum value out of cloud infrastructure and pay down
your technical debt,” Delory said.

He expressed pessimism about the supply chain outlook, saying that disruptions
continue to be an ongoing effect of COVID-19 shutdowns. “Some of our data is
looking pretty dire.”

For example, Gartner is seeing lead times on network equipment averaging 200
days, and in some cases, clients have reported delays of 400 days.

“That means if you order new network gear today, you might not receive it in
2023,” Delory said. “Many organizations that expected to do network refreshes
this year may need to sweat those assets for another year.”

Cloud and consumption-based models are also ways to mitigate supply chain
issues, Delory said. In terms of the cloud, capacity management is the cloud
vendors’ problem. In a consumption-based model, items are shipped with excess
capacity, so you don’t pay for them until you use them.

“A lot of IT shops have grown accustomed to just-in-time ordering because it’s
more resource efficient,” Delory said. “But in a time of widespread supply chain
disruptions, just-in-time ordering may not work.”


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