10 technical trends affecting infrastructure and operation--operation and maintenance

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Objective:
As the leaders of the infrastructure and operations teams, as an increasing number of organizations and teams promote innovation in their digital business by combining information technology with operational dimension technology, they should be more focused on the following 10 key technology trends to support these innovations.
This paper will introduce the key technologies of the 10 major impact infrastructure and operational dimension from the three aspects of strategy, tactics and organization. Such trends are closely related to society and business and will directly affect the ability of it to deliver services to the business over the next five years. It leaders must be aware of these trends and the hierarchical effects of it operational dimensions.

Strategic level
Trend 1: Phasing out data centers
By 2020, Gartner predicts that infrastructure, service (IaaS) and Platform-Service (PaaS) cloud providers will be able to sell more computing power than they can sell and deploy to enterprise data centers. While most businesses (except very small) will continue to have internal (or managed) data centers, however, as most computing power shifts to IAAS vendors, businesses and vendors need to focus on managing and leveraging local and non-local hybrid deployments, cloud and non cloud hybrid architectures.
Trend 2: Architecture interconnection
Architecture interconnection promises to build data centers that meet software definition, dynamic, and distributed requirements. Provides the possibility to have real-time monitoring, management, and allocation of workloads through an API interface, or to quickly provide service capabilities for local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs).
Trend 3: Containers, micro-services, and application flows
Containers (such as Docker) and micro services are a new application platform to drive cloud computing development. Containers provide a convenient way to isolate each process and are ideal for developing micro-services. The application is built as a set of small services that run as separate processes and communicate through the mechanism of a lightweight network. Micro-service can be deployed and managed independently, and once implemented, it can be run inside the container, which makes the micro-service have little direct interaction with the underlying operating system (OS).

Tactical Level
Trend 4: Business-driven It
Gartner's recent survey shows that up to 29% of IT spending comes from business units rather than traditional IT departments, and that the ratio will increase over the next few years. In general, this business-driven it is a means of getting rid of traditional slow-paced it processes. Today, business-driven it is designed to provide skilled business people with a means to enter or adapt to new markets as easily as possible while quickly implementing new ideas.
Today, savvy IT leaders recognize the true value of business-driven it to the enterprise, and it's role should be to connect with key business stakeholders so that core it is aware of new projects and potentially long-term impact on overall operations.
Trend 5: Data Center as a service
IT leaders need to create a data center, a service (DCAAS) model, where it and data centers are able to get the services that meet demand at an acceptable price at the right time. It becomes the representative of the service, not just the hardware provider.
It leaders can enable Dcaas by splitting the application portfolio according to the customer's business requirements. Once split, you can make decisions about how to deliver the service through traditional internal deployment methods, or by IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Some services based on these business requirements may always be internal, but many other services will eventually migrate to other places, increasing it flexibility while reducing their physical footprint.
Trend 6: Shelving capacity (stranded Capacity)
Shelving capacity refers to a large number of resources that are present in common data centers and cloud computing that we have purchased but are not really using. It leaders should know that they need to focus not only on the uptime and availability of containers, but also on capacity, utilization, and density. Resolving this problem can prolong the service life of the existing data center and reduce the operation and maintenance expenses of the suppliers.
Trend 7: The Internet of things
Internet will change the design and management of future data centers, and will continue to deliver data streams to businesses, government departments and institutions around the world on a regular basis with a large number of devices. The IoT should appoint a networking architect with a long-term strategy for the development of the IoT and the data center.

Organizational Level
Trend 8: Remote device Management
The growth trend of organizations such as remote sites or offices is the need to centrally manage remote assets. Enterprises focus on focusing on the emerging role of a micro-data center support area or remote site and an edge computing environment for geographically specific computing needs, such as the Internet of things.
The business unit quickly adopted the IoT solution and introduced a new type of asset-connected sensor. This sensor may require features such as firmware updates or periodic power replacements, which requires attention to new details and increased control levels in asset tracking and management systems.
Trend 9: Micro and Edge Computing environments
The implementation of micro and Edge computing needs to rely on real-time applications that respond at high speed to the more recent edge servers. The communication latency was shortened from hundreds of milliseconds to a few milliseconds. It shifts some of the intensive computing processing on a user's device to an edge server and makes the application process less dependent on the device's capabilities.
New roles in Trend 10:it
As it technologies evolve with new trends, new jobs will be needed in the infrastructure and operation Industries. The first is the IT cloud agent responsible for monitoring and managing multiple cloud service providers.
It also requires an Internet architect who is responsible for understanding the potential impact of multiple IoT systems on data centers. The architect will work with the business unit to use common protocols and data structures to ensure that the closed-loop object networking solution is compatible with the central things networking architecture.
It also requires an expert who can integrate a team to ensure and integrate new initiatives (such as cloud, Edge computing, IoT, etc.).

Author Introduction:
David Cappuccio:gartner Vice president and outstanding analyst, Gartner Research director of Infrastructure team, mainly responsible for enterprise data center strategy development and Trend research, with over 45 years of technical experience, including financial services, it operation, Market research and management consulting.

Original link: http://sdtimes.com/10-technology-trends-infrastructure-operations/

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