Growing complexity of IT environments A recent report suggests that the global market for Managed Services focused on IT infrastructure and security is close to $ 300 billion now and will grow at a CAGR of 13% for the next 5-6 years. One key driver for this growth is the sheer complexity of IT environments […]
Trends in Managed Services provisioning Barracuda Networks has an interesting report about the current trends and future prospects of the Managed Service Provider segment of the IT services market. The report taps the intelligence of over 700 MSPs around the world and the results are interesting. For one, it confirms what most of us in […]
Cloud Migration Challenges 2 out of 3 enterprise IT professionals surveyed for Cloudera’s 2023 State of the Cloud Report said that cloud migration was a “top challenge”. They worried about the costs associated with making this move. They were also concerned about the lack of well-designed applications to enable these migrations. Perhaps not surprisingly, they […]
Monitoring-as-a-Service A recent market study projected that the Cloud Monitoring market could touch $ 10 billion worldwide by 2023, growing by over 20% each year from here on. While we should always take market projection numbers with a pinch of salt, I’m inclined to believe that this market segment is poised to take off. We […]
Technology Trends – Cloud and Edge Computing Every year, the McKinsey Technology Council prepares an exhaustively researched list of the technology trends capturing the imagination of enterprises worldwide. The McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024 is now out and, as always, it makes for some interesting reading. One trend that continues to occupy pride of place […]
Securing your IT Infrastructure In many of the client engagements where we are responsible for the remote monitoring of the IT infrastructure, inevitably the security question pops up. Today, securing the IT infrastructure is the top priority of CIOs. In a growing number of cases, we are now finding ourselves proposing an almost parallel solution, […]
Managing application modernization A survey by Wakefield Research last year reported that an astonishing 92% of enterprises were working on at least one application modernization project. Perhaps, not quite as surprisingly, nearly 80% also said that these efforts had not always panned out as per plan. I can attest to the fact that these projects […]
Strategizing application modernization We hear a lot about application modernization in discussions about enterprise IT. The usual motivators for such conversations are the need to bring agility into the enterprise IT strategy to keep up with rapidly changing customer needs and market dynamics. But the truth is that most CIOs dread these conversations. The dirty […]
Cost control through application maintenance Gartner has projected that over this year, over 40% of all enterprise IT spending will go towards application development and support. Half of that, so about 1 dollar out of every 5 of total spending is likely to be dedicated to the maintenance of existing systems. That is a significant […]
Managing the enterprise application explosion A MuleSoft survey of over 1000 IT leaders of global enterprises earlier this year said that on average these enterprises were using a staggering 1060 applications! This was a growth of over 10% over the previous survey from the year before. That’s an extraordinarily large, complex, and involved application ecosystem. […]