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Pure Storage 2022 Predictions: Data, As-a-Service, and Containers

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Data, As-a-Service, and Containers

By Murli Thirumale, VP and general manager of Pure Storage's Cloud Native Business Unit - Portworx

As we enter 2022, successful organizations will throw traditional ideas about IT infrastructure out the window and start looking at technology as an agility enabler. If the last couple of years have taught us anything, it's that modern businesses (and their IT leaders) cannot afford to operate under the status quo. Instead, it's critical that they ensure the right infrastructure and technology partners are in place to overcome challenges and barriers. With that being said, here are my predictions for 2022 and beyond:

The Modern CIO will Invest in Data

Building a flexible infrastructure and delivering agile applications is no longer a competitive advantage. In fact, it's the bare minimum that CIOs must invest in to keep the lights on and maintain reliable day-to-day business operations. The agility and intelligence needed to succeed in the modern era is truly about creating real-time actionable insights from data services - from machine learning/AI to as-a-service offerings, and more. The CIOs we'll see next year will place a heightened focus on deriving value from data to enable modern (and innovative) products, services, and customer experiences.

Moving Up The Stack with As-a-Service Will Be IT Table Stakes

The old IT ecosystem relied on building traditional hardware infrastructure. Then software ate the world. Middleware emerged to become the connective tissue, gluing everything together, with applications sitting on top of the stack. In 2022, we'll see the deconstruction of this traditional IT stack into a new world of IT: as-a-service. This preferred model of consumption will significantly diminish the standalone value of hardware, middleware, and major application players everywhere. Organizations that aren't moving up the stack rapidly, won't stand the test of time. As-a-service will eat software.

Containers Will Become No-Brainers For Midmarket Companies Too

Previously, Global 2000 companies were those that could afford to experiment and deploy newer technologies like containers. After all, they have the means to staff talented DevOps teams and invest in multi-year transformation initiatives. However, as containers move past the stages of initial innovation and adoption, and the industry moves into early maturity, midmarket companies will begin deploying and experimenting with this technology even more. Not only will containers work better out of the box, they'll be delivered as-a-service and consumed with ease.

Consolidating Database Operations Will Rise to the Top of IT Leaders' Wishlists

In recent years we've seen the proliferation of databases. Where there were only a few key winners in the legacy database game, IT leaders are now faced with managing a growing number of databases as developers continue to leverage their preferred method of charting data, working with increasingly large data sets, and more. In 2022, IT will place a heightened focus on finding ways to consolidate how they run these databases. Why? Every database installs in different ways, manages data in different ways, and ultimately scales in different ways. Organizations cannot afford to hire individual experts for each database to run them in IT Ops. They will look for platforms that can consolidate the Day 1 and Day 2 operations of different databases around functions like database sizing, replication, patching and upgrades so they are not caught in an operational quagmire.

Kubernetes will move beyond orchestration, to serve as an infrastructure control plane.

Kubernetes successfully established itself as the way to orchestrate containers. In the last five years, IT managers recognized that they wanted to extend Kubernetes to manage compute, storage and networking and CNCF obliged by creating extensions for Kubernetes to manage these. CSI (Container Storage Interface) and CNI (Container Network Interface) are examples of these extensions. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are using Kubernetes as their new control plane for infrastructure management using overlay software and these interfaces to manage their storage, networking and compute capex using Kubernetes and getting the agility scale and cost savings of Kubernetes for IT as well as applications. Kubernetes has blossomed into a dual role: orchestrating containers and orchestrating infrastructure. This trend will ramp rapidly and enter early majority from early adoption.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Murli Thirumale 

Murli is VP and general manager of Pure Storage's Cloud Native Business Unit - Portworx, where he is responsible for strategy, operations and solutions that deliver multicloud data services for Kubernetes.

Published Monday, January 31, 2022 7:34 AM by David Marshall
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