ABES supports Gartner Conference that takes place in April

 

 

ABES members will have a special discount of R$ 550

Gartner, the world leader in enterprise research and advice, highlights the key trends that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders should begin preparing to support digital infrastructure in 2019 during the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Business Strategy Conference. Cloud, which takes place on April 24th and 25th, in São Paulo.
 
The event has the institutional support of ABES and its associates will have a special discount of R$ 550 in the subscription price. To gain access, sign up with the code BRIABS site www.gartner.com/pt-br/conferences/la/infrastructure-operations-cloud-brazil.
 
It will be an opportunity to understand how cloud strategies offer variations and combinations that must be structured according to the needs of your organization. Learn more about this subject by visiting the Exclusive E-book Strategic Cloud Leadership, by Gartner analyst David Mitchell Smit, who introduces the various cloud models and how to create a framework for leveraging cloud computing.
 
 
Top 5 trends for Infrastructure and Operations in 2019
 
“More than ever, the infrastructure and operations department needs to be involved in the day-to-day of the companies' strategic areas. The focus of industry leaders is no longer just delivering engineering and processes for operations, but delivering products and services that support and enable organizations' business strategy,” says Ross Winser, Senior Research Director at Gartner. "The question is how can we use capabilities such as artificial intelligence (AI), network automation or edge computing to support rapidly growing infrastructures that need to meet the needs of companies."
 
In this context, Gartner encourages infrastructure and operations leaders to prepare for the technologies and trends that will support digital infrastructure in 2019. They are:
 
serverless computing – Serverless computing is an emerging software architecture standard that promises to eliminate the need for local infrastructure provisioning and management. Infrastructure and operations leaders need to start taking an application-centric approach to serverless computing and managing APIs and SLAs, rather than sticking with physical infrastructures built in-house. “The truth is that servers will continue to exist, but service providers will be responsible for all the analysis and dimensioning of the resources involved in the environment, which will result in more agility for organizations”, he explains. It is worth remembering that this type of technology will not replace the application of containers or virtual machines, and it is essential to know how to best use the serverless concept before applying it. “Developing support and management capabilities of this type should be a focus within infrastructure and operations teams, as more than 20% of global organizations will implement serverless computing technologies by 2020. Today, less than 5% of companies use this format” , says Winser.
 
Impacts of Artificial Intelligence – Artificial Intelligence is growing in importance for infrastructure and operations leaders who need to manage rapidly expanding infrastructures and who, at the same time, cannot grow their staff. Artificial intelligence capabilities have the potential to transform organizations and are at the heart of digital business, whose impacts are already being felt by companies. According to Gartner, AI-derived businesses will reach US$ 3.9 trillion by 2022.
 
 
Ensure network agility – Network infrastructure and capacity are the foundation of everything IT does – Cloud solutions, Internet of Things (IoT) and cutting-edge services, for example, and will continue to advance in 2019. "Teams are under constant pressure to ensure high network availability. Although the culture of teams often limits change, the fact is that the demand for agility in the performance of these operations has also increased", says Winser. The focus of I&O leaders for 2019 and beyond should be on finding ways to help their teams increase the pace of work, looking for options to meet the need for more agility. “Part of this answer is the creation of an environment with automation and analysis, capable of dealing with the real change of companies”, he explains.
 
Gartner estimates that the demands for network performance improvements are expected to grow with the advent of 5G, the maturity of cloud solutions and the explosion in the number of IoT devices. "These are just some of the pressures leaders must anticipate. So the critical time to address this challenge is now," says the Gartner analyst.
 
Death of the Data Center – Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% organizations will migrate their data from on-premises data centers to colocation, hosting or cloud environments, leading to the gradual closure of their traditional data centers. “I&O leaders must prepare for this move by adjusting workloads based on business needs and not limited to physical location-based decisions. From hosting to Public Cloud, there are many alternatives to on-premises data centers. Leaders must identify whether there are truly strategic reasons to persist with local needs, especially when considering that the significant amount of investment involved is often amortized over many years,” says the analyst. Preparations must start now, as the critical timeframe for this will be 2021 to 2025.
 
Edge Computing – The advancement of IoT devices and immersive technologies will push information processing to the limit, redefining and reshaping what I&O leaders will need to deploy and manage. The edge, in this case, is the physical place where things and people will connect with the networked digital world – a space that will make the infrastructure increasingly reach its limits. Edge Computing is part of a distributed computing topology where information processing is located close to the edge, which is where things and people produce or consume that information. Edge Computing addresses the laws of physics, economics, and land, which are all contributing factors to how and when to use edge. "This is another trend that does not replace the Cloud, but enhances it", says Winser. “The critical timeframe for organizations to embrace this trend is between 2020 and 2023.”