System Development Techniques Individual Assignment

System Development Techniques

Diploma in Information Technology

Lesson 20

Learning outcomes After studying this chapter and the recommended reading, you should be able to:

• Discuss the trends in technology infrastructure

• Discuss the trends in application platform

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 1: Automation strategy rethink – As digital business scales up, demands on I&O automation

will increase, which will threaten the viability of this type of approach.

– By 2025, more than 90% of enterprises will have an automation architect, up from less than 20% today.

– Ensure automation is scalable to digital business needs, addressing use cases that align with business strategy

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 2: Hybrid IT vs. disaster recovery confidence – Hybrid IT combines on-site data centers with cloud

technologies. – Hybrid IT blends cloud architecture flavors—public,

private, hybrid—with in-house data centers in order to deliver data workloads, apps, and services across the hybrid infrastructure environments.

– This hybrid model allows organizations to manage and govern IT services in a standard way, with a focus on adopting cloud computing as a strategic imperative

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 2: Hybrid IT vs. disaster recovery confidence – Hybrid infrastructures make disaster recovery increasingly

complex. In the new world of distributed applications and complex integration, I&O professionals are facing the uncomfortable truth that if a disaster strikes, heritage recovery strategies may not address the full extent of their operating scenarios.

– Rethink disaster recovery strategies to account for workloads in public and private clouds, in traditional data centers and at the edge.

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 3: Scaling DevOps agility – An increasing number of enterprise product teams work in

DevOps environments. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps • a set of practices that combines software

development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). • aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and

provide continuous delivery with high software quality. • complementary with Agile software development;

several DevOps aspects came from the Agile methodology.

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 3: Scaling DevOps agility – Ensure the skills needed are available at scale and that

many teams do not end up duplicating effort in similar ways.

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 4: Infrastructure is everywhere — so is your data – In a hybrid IT world, IT infrastructure is located wherever

the business needs it, meaning that data is located everywhere, too. By 2022, more than 50% of enterprise data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud, up from less than 10% in 2019.

– I&O leaders must plan for the accompanying data impacts. As data is increasingly distributed, I&O teams can struggle to provide the protection and management needed.

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 5: Overwhelming impact of IoT – Due to the transformative and far-reaching nature of IoT

projects and their inherent complexity, understanding which team is responsible for each piece of the IoT puzzle can be a challenge.

– “I&O must become involved early on in IoT planning discussions to understand the proposed service and support model at scale,” says Winser. “This will avoid the cascade effect of unforeseen service gaps that could cause serious headaches in the future. I&O leaders have important thought leadership to offer IoT teams regarding service and support considerations.”

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 6: Distributed cloud – As businesses continue to move to the cloud, a shift is

occurring — the cloud is now coming to them. – This is known as distributed cloud, in which public cloud

services will be available in different physical locations while the provider remains responsible for the operation, governance, updates and evolution of the services.

– The distributed model is likely to appeal to organizations that have been constrained by the physical location of cloud services in the past.

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 7: Immersive experience – Today’s I&O customers have higher expectations than ever,

influenced heavily by their experience of consumer technology provided by digital giants. Functions once considered value-adds are now baseline expectations. Users expect seamless integration, immediate feedback and very high levels of availability.

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 8: Democratization of IT – Low-code and no-code platforms enable users to

quickly build applications using minimal code approaches. This can enable “citizen development” intended to save time and resources.

– E.g. SAP configurable module. Plug in AI module for game development.

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 9: Networking — what’s next? – Automation will be key for enabling networks that are

simpler, more reliable and responsive to change. – Starlink • https://www.starlink.com/ • A satellite internet constellation being constructed

by SpaceX providing satellite Internet access.The constellation will consist of thousands of mass- produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), working in combination with ground transceivers.

Gartner Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure & Operations for 2020

• Trend 10: Hybrid digital infrastructure management – I&O leaders must seek tools that challenge silos of

visibility, and some vendors are already trying to solve these issues.

– I&O leaders must carefully evaluate promised functionality and anticipate that their own teams may be forced to fill gaps by integrating tools and growing (not replacing) their baseline.

Read

Gartner • https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-

10-trends-impacting-infrastructure-operations-for-2020/ Deloitte Insights: • https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/pt/Docu

ments/tech-trends/TechTrends2020.pdf