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Sporting a new name, the long anticipated in-person event, VMware Explore, was back this year with new innovation, new conversations, and a new theme, “Cloud Chaos.” The Enterprise Strategy Group analyst team was there, on location, and in this video, you will hear from me, as well as Mark Bowker, Bob Laliberte, Paul Nashawaty, and Kevin Rhone, on the most impressive announcements and insights from the event.
Check out the video and hope to see you in person at next year’s event.
And, to read more from Enterprise Strategy Group on VMware Explore 2022, check out the following articles:
Organizations continue to look for ways to modernize their heritage production applications. Most are employing cloud-native application strategies with multiple public cloud providers. They’ll need unified microservices architectures to achieve the application portability that is essential in managing multiple clouds in hybrid models where on-premises apps still play important roles and to lay the foundation for an entirely cloud-first future.
Understanding the benefits and challenges of developing and deploying cloud-native applications is key to success. Security, integration, and the developer skills gap are among the biggest microservices hurdles, while developer velocity, app portability, and infrastructure independence lead the list of advantages.
The clear path to cloud-native applications is to use modern methodologies such as DevOps and agile development on modern application platforms and “developer-ready” infrastructure. However, the self-reported maturity of organizations in their use of modern methodologies is not substantiated by development KPIs, such as hourly code production, and most are hobbled by an IT skills gap. Choosing the right platform and building internal skills are critical in implementing the development methodologies needed for successful cloud-native deployments.
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Developer velocity – the speed at which new applications can be developed and deployed – often determines success for digital transformation and digital business initiatives. Many businesses, however, don’t have the infrastructure in place to optimize application development efforts and fully maximize the potential of these initiatives. Given the prominent role that IT transformation plays in digital transformation initiatives, businesses need to take a holistic “infrastructure-out” approach to their digital transformation journeys, with a focus on regular and constant collaboration between IT operations and application development teams.
As enterprises digitally transform, business application environments scale at an accelerated pace and become more distributed not only in the cloud, but also on premises. As a result, a siloed approach to infrastructure and operations is no longer viable. The tendency among many organizations is to view migration to the cloud as the sole remedy for simplifying operations and increasing the velocity of app development. However, on-premises application environments are alive and well, and the data center is far from dead. Therefore, standing still is not an option for data center environments, where app modernization strategies need to reflect the transformation activities of existing and net-new applications in multiple environments while overcoming integration challenges in a variety of cloud and on-premises locations.
IT operations teams continue to strive to improve collaboration with developers on building modern application architectures. As companies accelerate or embark on their digital transformation journeys, what is the expected role of ITSM in enabling businesses to realize the benefits of automation, observability, intelligence, and optimization? Enterprise Strategy Group recently surveyed IT, DevOps, and application development professionals responsible for application infrastructure to find the answers.
Find out what research uncovered with this free infographic, Distributed Cloud Series: Observability from Code to Cloud.
Many large tech companies have already invested heavily in quantum technologies, yet significant adoption of quantum computing has had its share of delays and false starts. However, with some recent announcements in the quantum sector, now seems to be the ideal time for organizations to take a closer look at quantum and consider how this approach could work for their business workloads. Organizations that have been historically focused on classical computing are now positioning quantum for the future.
Recently I covered how many companies are approaching this adoption and how they are starting to shift the market. My recent TechTarget article titled, “What’s the state of quantum computing?” highlights the current vendor position, new acquisitions in the space, and the upcoming horizons for the next generation of adoption.
Paul’s POV
There are many companies trying to get in front of this “wave” because quantum processing is incredibly fast. Solving today’s problems would be completed in a fraction of time. However, not all use cases work with quantum. The traditional systems coexist with quantum systems now and will continue to do so in the future.
SUSE’s annual global conference, SUSECON, held virtually in June, was jam-packed with initiatives and information essential for the future of SUSE and for the open-source market.
A lot has occurred in the last year for SUSE. For one, SUSE is now listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and was the largest enterprise software IPO in Europe in 2021, according to the vendor. I find this interesting, considering how long SUSE has been in the market. Based on SUSECON, it’s clear that the direction of the business is focused on maturity and growth.
Highlights of SUSECON
The commitment to the open-source community shaped the talk track at SUSECON 2022. SUSE CEO Melissa Di Donato kicked off the event, highlighting the company’s main focus areas with these products and initiatives:
Business-critical Linux
Enterprise container management
Cloud-native edge innovation
In my TechTarget article, I expand on the highlights at SUSECON 2022 and how our related research connects into SUSE’s strategy including growth at the edge:
Paul’s POV
With the announcements at SUSECON, I am interested to see whether SUSE can break through these industry obstacles to help deliver on its promise of business success. It remains to be seen if the technologies, tools, and approaches communicated at this event will provide the capabilities to address these concerns. Will SUSE be able to execute and continue the momentum? Time will tell. Stay tuned for SUSECON 2023.
The 2022 Red Hat Summit was held on May 10-11 and covered a number of customer, partner, and industry expert approaches in open source technology delivery.
Red Hat has seen a lot of growth and market share when it comes to enterprise Linux. The innovation demonstrated at Red Hat Summit 2022 shows continued growth, not just when it comes to the OS, but also in ways that address organizational challenges such as skills gaps, edge growth, and modernization across the ecosystem.
Here are the key highlights from the suite of products Red Hat showcased at the event:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
RHEL 9 edge capabilities
RHEL 9 security
Automation with RHEL 9
Red Hat OpenShift Updates
Ansible update and validate patterns
Automotive OS and partnership
The Conversation around the IT Skills Gap
Organizations are challenged by limited availability of Linux admins. One efficient way to address this is for organizations to provide consistency and unify their environment. Using tooling and automation like Ansible helps companies get the most of their Linux talent. OpenShift and automation can be used across a web console and with other hardware and software.
Managed services should also be considered. Steph Bacon, senior director of portfolio strategy at Red Hat, shared some insights about how Red Hat-managed services also play a key role in customer success. This is another area where organizations can use a managed service approach to offset the skills gap challenges.
And Other Red Hat News
Future RHEL 10 and CentOS Stream releases were also discussed. When RHEL was first created, Fedora was a sandbox, RHEL was for the enterprise, and CentOS was meant to provide insights for the RHEL release. Now CentOS Stream provides the upstream version of RHEL as it is being created. CentOS Stream can be considered the new sandbox for enterprise RHEL.
Fresh off my trip to Dallas for IBM Think, I am reminded how much I enjoy the intimacy offered by these smaller regional events. Unlike their global counterparts, you can often get a closer look at the interaction between a vendor and its customers along with better insight into how IT leaders are handling their own transformation journeys. This setting was a wonderful complement to IBM’s theme of “Let’s create.”
Creation in business often requires combining the right technology with the right expertise. Historically, IT organizations tended to maintain the needed expertise in-house and would look to the vendor community for the right technology. Given the pace, scale, and complexity of modern IT, however, businesses often can’t meet their demands for expertise relying solely on in-house experts anymore. IT leaders have had to turn to third parties to fill in the gaps. And frankly, there is a scarcity of expertise in tech today. We see it in our research into pervasive skill shortages and IT personnel consistently being asked to assume more responsibilities.
IT vendors, such as IBM, that can offer a multi-cloud, multi-partner perspective that is customer-centric, and not just technology-centric, deliver tremendous value. The level of complexity in modern multi-cloud environments is so great, however, that one vendor, or even one cloud provider can often not cover everything alone.
IBM recognizes this challenge and opportunity. Its “Let’s create” message is not only an open invitation to collaborate, but also an acknowledgement IBM will work to integrate the right partners as well. Technology combined with the right expertise from the right partners is a powerful message, one that IBM is embracing.
For additional insights from IBM Think, please check out the video below.
Cisco Live! returned to Las Vegas on June 12-16. Getting back to in-person events has been refreshing and seeing remote colleagues and friends for the first time in a long while at this event was invaluable. (more…)
