According to the consulting firm Gartner, there are certain trends that are already happening today, but will have a more tangible impact in 2020. The Four Trends In IT That Will Impact In 2020.
- No more servers.
- Engineers Experienced in Humanities.
- Hybrid Cloud and Hyperconvergence.
- Global Infrastructure.
The department of Information Technology (IT) has become one of the most important for companies. As the management of assets in this area is, in many cases, the support of all their information. So, knowing what to expect in the coming years is relevant for the CIO’s and general managers of companies.
According to the consulting firm Gartner, there are certain trends that are already happening today but will have a more tangible impact in 2020.
Knowing them now can help companies capitalize in advance.
1. No more servers
This means that companies can choose to have a virtual information container managed by a third party or to manage it internally.
However, although this is a trend to be seen in the future, Federico Da Silva, director of research and president of the Gartner IT Infrastructure Conference, warns of its application in certain sectors.
“By 2020, more than 20% of global companies will have implemented serverless computing technologies. Which represents an increase of less than 5% today. But, this is something that cannot be used in applications where end users interact a lot, such as banking applications,” said Da Silva.
In terms of investment Gartner indicates that it will go from a current investment of $5.2 billion dollars to $14 billion dollars in 2020 in this type of “hosting” services.
2. Experienced Engineers in Humanities
“More than 75% of the leaders in infrastructure and operations (I&O) do not have the soft skills that the work of managing and operating servers requires. So they need two to three years to have a complete training and this is something that can delay the adaptation of new tools, such as machine learning or artificial intelligence,” said Katherine Lord, vice president of IT analysis at Gartner.
This means that the profile of network operators has changed and now aspects of diversity, creativity and versatility become relevant along with the skills that network managers have in technical knowledge.
“It is not going to serve you to have the best software or the integration of better technologies if your I&O does not have the skills in humanities and social sciences to know how to read and program your systems,” Lord said.
3. Hybrid Cloud and Hyperconvergence
Gartner predicts that, based on current trends, by 2025 80% of enterprises will completely migrate from local data centers to cloud hosting, leading them to close their traditional data centers.
And beyond being bad news, this is an opportunity for organizations to have a hybrid cloud with more open environments where modifications can be made more easily.
“We need to get back to what the cloud is all about, a tool that allows you to manage your data by taking the weight off data management in one place and bringing information closer to developers in a more accessible way.
Staying closed today is keeping the operation more complicated and this delays the changes that developers could make to provide solutions to businesses and users,” said David Cappuccio, distinguished vice president of IT at Gartner.
Finally, cloud services must allow costs to remain low and creativity to develop the applications businesses need.
Finally, services in the cloud must allow costs to be kept low and creativity in the development of the applications that companies need.
4. Global Infrastructure
Although few infrastructures are truly global in nature, organizations must prepare for the notion of infrastructure present everywhere, according to Gartner.
“The management of information and the use of technologies such as machine learning or IA is a trend that is pushing companies to be more global and to interact with a wide variety of partners, the more they know the picture of what they are doing on the other side of the world, the stronger their network analysis will be,” said Da Silva.
Companies are merging and moving toward a collaborative trend. Just look at the latest collaborations that have been announced in the “cloud” world.
Red Hat was acquired by IBM, Microsoft and the acquisition of GitHub, SAP and the acquisition of Qualtrics or the more recent acquisition of Google, which is entering the cloud world stronger with the acquisition of Looker.
