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Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Platforms, 2024
Published 25 June 2024"Organizations are pressured to innovate and deliver products faster to meet customer needs. This requires adopting new operating models and modern practices to deliver scalable, reliable platforms that enable faster product delivery. Infrastructure platform engineering provides automated delivery of curated secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure services available via self-services or APIs, and reduces the effort and cycle time for users to request and access the products".
"By 2028, more than 50% of infrastructure and operations (I&O) organizations will have formed infrastructure platform engineering (IPE) groups, up from less than 25% in 2024". This Hype Cycle is fundamental for I&O leaders to prepare for the delivery of effective infrastructure platform capabilities.
Key Findings from the report:
- Infrastructure platforms are key to I&O’s ability to deliver value while managing cost and risk.
- I&O leaders must view infrastructure platforms as an enabler for the overarching trends of DevOps, container, hybrid IT, edge computing, communications infrastructure applications and platform-engineering-driven approaches to delivering business solutions.
- During the next two to five years, anticipate continual evolution of second-generation infrastructure platforms that are extensible, API-driven and centered around automation for tasks like remediation.
- AI is being incorporated in the engineering and operations of infrastructure platforms; they are intended to help infrastructure staff in deploying and managing infrastructure platforms (e.g., enhancing intelligent platforms and event intelligence solutions, and even in programming infrastructure).
Download the full report to get essential insights and strategic planning assumptions critical for navigating the evolving landscape of IT infrastructure. Prepare for effective delivery of infrastructure platform capabilities, achieving enhanced performance, resource optimization, and customer-centric innovation. The report comes with a detailed Hype Cycle & Priority Matrix to help you assess the value and maturity timeline of various innovations.
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