Trends You Need to Watch

Trends You Need to Watch

 

Trends You Need to Watch

Trends You Need to Watch

 

1   The New Scale of IT

The New Scale of IT

1 Forecast: Servers, All Countries, 2012-2019, 2Q15 Update (G00275604)
2 Forecast: External Controller-Based Storage, Worldwide, All Countries, 2015-2019, 1Q15 (G00275634)
3 Forecast: Enterprise Network Equipment by Market Segment, Worldwide, 2012-2019, 1Q15 Update (G00273630)
4 Gartner Technology Planner, July 2015

 

1   Nonstop Demand

Nonstop Demand

 

2   Every Business Unit Is a Technology Startup

Every Business Unit Is a Technology Startup

 

2   Every Business Unit Is a Technology Startup

The Issue:

  • Business Not Willing to Wait for IT.
  • Cloud Services Proliferating.
  • Standards Impossible.
  • Costs Escalating.

The Choice:

  • Does IT Set the Standards? (No)
  • Does IT Focus on Mode 1 Only? (No)
  • Can IT Reset the Playing Field? (Yes)
 

3   Edge Computing

Edge Computing

Source: Canyon Bicycles

  • Small devices or services
  • Remote sites
  • Latency dependent services
  • Geo-specific applications
  • IoT analytics
 

3   Edge Computing — IT Staff Need to Start Thinking Differently

Edge Computing – IT Staff Need to Start Thinking Differently

The end-user experience is still IT's responsibility

 

Trends You Need to Watch

Trends You Need to Watch
 

4   Enterprise-Defined Data Centers

The New Data Center Is Everywhere

Enterprise-Defined Data Centers

 

4   Enterprise-Defined Data Centers

Enterprise-Defined Data Centers

  • Centrally operate, orchestrate and automate.
  • Allows configuration from one place.
  • Enhances workload and traffic flow.
  • Networks, storage, servers, data centers, etc.

Services delivered from the right place, for the right price, from the right platform.

 

5   Integrated Systems

The fastest growing data center infrastructure on the planet

  • "Stack" sale versus component sale.
  • Competes with general purpose designs.
  • Optimized for ease of use.
  • One or many vendor products.
  • Best of brand versus best of breed.

Integrated Systems

 

5   Integrated Systems Evolution

Strategic Planning Assumptions — 2018/2019

  1. Integrated systems advance at a 24% CAGR.
  2. Hyperconverged integrated systems represent 25% of total converged infrastructure shipment revenues.
  3. 75% of the total DC Systems HW market will be considered by decision-makers as suitable for integrated systems.

Inhibitors to growth: Interoperability, culture, skeptics

Integrated Systems Evolution
 

6   Open Source Hardware

Open Source Hardware

Proof-of-concept unit shown by Intel

  • Customer-composed solutions.
  • Shared interconnects.
  • Shared power feeds.
  • Component open connect.
  • Intel's silicon photonics.
  • OEM choice.
  • Low component costs.

Open Source Hardware

Proof-of-concept unit shown by HP

 

6   Open Source Hardware

Open Source Hardware

  • Workload dependent.
  • Design to fail applications.
  • Retrofits.
  • Micro or remote sites.
  • Vendor support structure needed.
  • Augments, rather than competes, with integrated systems.
 

7   IT Service Continuity

IT Service Continuity

  • Integrate IT continuity and disaster recovery.
  • Part of overall DC strategy.
  • RTO and workload focus.
  • Hybrid approach.



Use location and networking options to implement entirely new application topologies

 

7   IT Service Continuity — Example

IT Service Continuity

  • Less Internet
  • Lower Latency
  • Interconnection
  • Topology Alternatives
 

Trends You Need to Watch

Trends You Need to Watch

 

8   Global Data Center Management

Trends You Need to Watch

 

8   Global Data Center Management

Global Data Center Management

Your Data Center Is Everywhere — Can You Manage It?

 

9   Bimodal IT

Bimodal IT means —

having two modes of IT, each designed to address different information and technology goals:

Bimodal IT

 

9   Bimodal IT

Bimodal IT

Staff Disruptions and Organizational Stability Are Key Inhibitors

 

10   Composable Infrastructure Management

Composable Infrastructure Management

 

10   Composable Infrastructure Management

 

What's Needed:

  • Dynamic Inventory
  • Full Topology — Regardless
  • Application Maps
  • End to End Visualization
  • Network Maps and Flow
  • Alerts and Faults
  • KPI Management

 

Composable Infrastructure Management

 

Recommendations

  • Prepare for organizational disruptions — Externally and internally generated.
  • Software networks are coming — begin updating skills now.
  • Hybrid cloud services are evolving rapidly; evaluate based on need, price, value, viability.
  • Operational complexity will increase — reduce it via standard platforms and processes.
  • Begin thinking horizontally — break the vertical stack model.
 

Action Plan for CIOs and Enterprise Architects

Monday Morning:

  • Assess all projects and their relationships — look horizontally.
  • Prioritize based on risk, reward and long-term impact.

 

Your Next 90 Days:

  • Look again at capacity planning — without presumptions.
  • Assess staff skills based on breadth of knowledge and value to the business, not just value to IT.

 

Your Next 12 Months:

  • Review opportunities to converge networks, infrastructures and skill sets.
  • Establish the impact on other business plans.
 

Recommended Gartner Research

  • Emerging Technology Analysis: OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking for CSPs Akshay K. Sharma (G00233227)
  • How to Grow the Enterprise-Defined Data Center David J. Cappuccio and Thomas J. Bittman (G00270927)
  • The Internet of Everything Mark Raskino and Hung LeHong (G00234337)
  • Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2015 Ed Anderson and David Mitchell Smith (G00276722)