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What’s Next for the Cloud
2022 saw pivotal shifts within the tech industry, from sustainability solidified as a major priority for IT leaders to automation cemented as a vital tool for enterprises forced to do more with less. CloudBolt Software, the leader in automating, optimizing, and governing hybrid cloud, multi-tool environments, runs several industry insight reports per year around the state of the cloud. Tapping into these findings and looking towards the year ahead, Bernard Sanders, co-founder of CloudBolt, brings you his top cloud industry predictions for 2023.
Mature IT Teams Will Move Beyond Automation and Orchestration Toward Standardization
Developers often build automations for tools and processes. But siloed development teams across an organization often don’t communicate, so developers end up automating the same things over and over again, reinventing the wheel.
Mature IT teams will increasingly invest in smart standardization. They will collect and cull the smartest automation and orchestration artifacts, doing away with redundancies and inefficiencies across teams, departments and geographies. This will give rise to new smart catalogs of the best-built artifacts and standardize the best internal resources, ensuring IT teams are using the best automations and provisioning new functionality for all users across DevOps, ITOps, FinOps and SecOps.
Automation Will Make Cloud Security Effortless for Users
A laissez-faire, “we’ve got it covered” mindset persists in many companies when it comes to cloud security. Too many decision makers assume that sufficient security is already built into tools like Prisma, Terraform, and cloud-native tools. The reality is that at the operator level, there are still too many opportunities for security parameters and protocols to be incorrectly applied or missed altogether.
2023 will be the year the C-suite at a growing number of organizations will increasingly heed the advice of security professionals working in the trenches and understand the risks and vulnerabilities they are seeing. They will eliminate manual processes in configuring workloads and support the smart automation of cloud security practices for existing and new resources. Their IT teams will move from reactive to proactive security, including standardization on security-approved, automated workload deployments.
From a Handshake to a Hug – DevOps and IT Will Come Together Through Platform Engineering
Traditionally, IT has dictated from the top down which tools the organization will use for development. Now, through platform engineering, IT and developers will come closer together, both as a new collaborative framework and an evolved toolset. We will see the rise of frictionless self-service developer portals, and IT can evolve to become more supportive than instructive; developers will tell IT which tools they want to use, and IT will be able to seamlessly accommodate their requests. Developers will spend less time on infrastructure tasks, and more time on creating applications, adding accelerated value for their organizations.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernard Sanders is co-founder of CloudBolt Software. Bernard has 20 years of experience in enterprise software leadership, including roles in engineering and product management, solutions architecture, and technical sales at leading technology companies. As a recognized technology leader in data center automation, DevOps, and software development, Sanders has developed a reputation for building powerful, flexible software solutions that don’t compromise usability or simplicity.
Bernard started his career in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and also worked at Loudcloud, Opsware, and HP. Within these organizations he has been one of the top solution architects, sought out by customers for his ability to make IT organizations successful with server automation products.
