In this week's news roundup for IT pros, more predictions for IT leaders and advice for the future of cloud.
Cloudy days ahead
More predictions populate news feeds this week, including Forrester's predictions for the future of cloud technology in 2017. Writing for ZDNet, Dave Bartoletti, principal analyst at Forrester, says, “the cloud market will accelerate faster in 2017, as enterprises around the world look to cloud to power their core business systems in addition to their customer-facing applications: Forrester forecasts that the global public cloud market will reach $146B in 2017, up from just $87B in 2015.” Bartoletti goes on to share three cloud trends that cannot be ignored in the new year.
With the predicted growth in cloud, IT leaders are exploring their options for managing their on-prem and cloud systems. In InfoWorld, Eric Knorr describes the five most common paths enterprises are taking into the cloud from DIY duplication, to hybrid application architecture, to multi-cloud integration and management.
Trends in IT spending
As we look to the future, Andrew Horne, an IT practice leader at CEB Global, offers a way to interpret predictions around IT spending in InformationWeek. The firm's IT Budget Survey found, “Just over half of organizations expect an increase in their IT budgets next year, and 38 percent expect a decrease, the survey found. A quarter of those surveyed expect a greater than 10 percent change.” Horne says, “The reason why the overall budget is flat is because half of the companies are spending more, and half are spending less, and it is netting out. That suggests that each company is making funding decisions based on strategies and objectives, rather than following broader overall technology trends." He goes on to explain how business-led IT efforts and changing talent needs are factoring into the results.
More news for CIOs
IT leaders: you don’t have to be the business [CIO]
The future of artificial intelligence and cybernetics [MIT Technology Review]
20 Mind-boggling facts every business leader must reflect on now [Forbes]
