We’re a little less than two weeks away from Predict 2020 Virtual Summit, our annual online event during which we ponder the future of DevOps, serverless, cybersecurity, digital transformation and IT. This year’s event will be held Jan. 23, featuring an impressive lineup of industry luminaries offering up their visions for 2020 and beyond. Among […]
Predictions 2020: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2020
Today, modernizing systems is more than simply moving technology to a new location. It requires an IT stack of a new generation of technologies and tools to work. As we head into the new year, let’s take a look at the top eight trends that will shape how we will develop and deliver software. Kubernetes […]
Predictions 2020: Key Trends that Will Shape the Autonomous Digital Enterprise
As 2019 comes to an end, and we look toward trends driving innovation in 2020 and beyond, technology advancements in hyper automation, AIOps, edge computing and the convergence of IT service management and IT operations management will be at the forefront. Autonomous Digital Enterprise In order to thrive in the 2025 futurescape, organizations will need […]
Predictions 2020: The Year of DevOps Empowerment
Every year since mid-decade, it seems, one publication or another has declared it to be “the year of DevOps.” Allow me to make the case that it really will happen in 2020. The reason? IT leaders are finally empowering their engineers with full-service ownership. In a world in which speed, quality and precision will continue […]
Predictions 2020: Application Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
Without wheeling out all the usual clichés, 2019 has been another whirlwind of disruptive innovation and opportunity–with plenty of challenges to tackle and circumvent along the way. The threat landscape mutated with predictable unpredictability, multi-cloud app deployments are becoming mainstream fixtures and DevOps methodologies started exerting a newfound influence on business plans. The big question […]
Predictions 2020: Five Real-Time Data Predictions
According to Gartner, 85% of big data initiatives end in failure. In 2020, organizations are out of budget and operational runway, and need to start executing and getting the big data recipe right. It is not just about big data; it is about using data differently. Rather than rearward-facing business intelligence, leading companies are driving […]
Predictions 2020: The Future of the Mobile Industry
The mobile device industry continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Statistics show that, today, over 5 billion people have mobile devices and there are over 9.2 billion mobile connections worldwide. Add to these statistics the fact that the number of consumers who shop and bank online continues to grow as well–presenting hackers with increasing […]
Predictions 2020: How to Make the Case for Adopting CI/CD in Your Organization
The practice of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is fundamental to modern software development. And yet, many organizations are still using slow, error-prone, manual processes to build, test and deploy their software. Sometimes, the blocker can be engineers who don’t want to change how they’ve always done things, but most often folks in the […]
Predictions 2020: The Future of APM Strategies and Tools
As 2019 comes to an end, it’s safe to say that multi-cloud strategies are here to stay. We can predict that 2020 will bring an ever-increasing demand for application performance management (APM) tools and services. So what does the future of APM look like? Let’s dive in. Multi-Cloud Strategies Increase the Demand for APM Tool […]
Predictions 2020: Ushering in 2020 Data Predictions
2019 brought us more data organizations running more advanced analytics, AI and ML workloads than ever before. 2020 is the year where we’ll see a spike in both the number of technologies and data teams that support these types of workloads internally. We’ll see AI and analytics teams merge into one as the new foundation […]










