CIO Playbook for 2018
George Lawton
SearchCIO
Enterprises are quickly moving from traditional legacy infrastructure to the cloud to keep up with nimble competitors. We reached out to leading analysts to weigh in on some of the emerging trends that CIOs need to consider in 2018. While new technologies like AI show real promise, CIOs also need to be practical in their big data initiatives. Other pointers? API management and dynamic networks need more strategic management to complement digital transformation.
CIO Playbook: Cloud exploits
Go Time! for cloud computing
"Forrester has declared 2018 as cloud computing 'Go Time!' Enterprise CIOs can't sit on the fence any longer and wait for competitors to leverage cloud platforms to create new customer-obsessed apps and insights. Cloud is no longer about cheap servers or storage -- cloud platforms are the digital transformation engines driving the best customer experiences.
"In 2018, we'll cross the 50% mark for global adoption of public cloud platforms by enterprises. That's up from just 10% in 2013. Spending will also rise more than 22% in 2018. 2018 will also bring dramatic growth in the use of cloud development platforms – [platform-as-a-service] features like continuous app delivery, automated app deployment, containers and Kubernetes services from AWS (Amazon Web Services), Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and others, and continued growth in adoption for cloud-native development platforms like Cloud Foundry and OpenShift.
"Be alert, though, as cloud consolidation is underway; CIOs should plan for some lock-in as they use more cloud services, and hedge against it wherever possible, but not at the expense of speed. SaaS (software as a service) vendors will all add development platforms as well, allowing enterprises to get more from their investment in leading SaaS apps by extending them with new machine learning, [the internet of things] and analytics services."
-- DAVE BARTOLETTI, VP and principal analyst at Forrester
Dave Bartoletti
Leading analysts break down the trends
George Lawton, SearchCIO
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