Digital Lifescapes

The field of enterprise software development has long been driven by human ingenuity. Programmers have meticulously crafted lines of code, bringing complex apps and systems to life. However, a new era is dawning, one where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to fundamentally change the way software is created, tested, and deployed. According to the latest market study by Gartner, a significant shift is on the horizon. By 2028, 75 percent of enterprise software engineers will be utilizing AI-powered code assistants. This statistic paints a clear picture: AI is not here to replace software programmers, but rather to augment their capabilities and usher in a new era of collaborative co-creation. AI Code Assistant Market Development The rise of AI code assistants can be attributed to several factors. Firstly, the ever-increasing complexity of software demands new tools to streamline development. Modern applications are intricate networks of code, often built upon a foundation of existin...

As a savvy CEO, you may believe that your organization is an IT innovator. But are you ready to become a Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) pioneer in your industry? If not, why are you hesitant? International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2028, GenAI-based tools will be capable of writing 70 percent of enterprise software tests -- decreasing the need for manual testing, and resulting in improvements to test coverage, software usability, and code quality. According to the IDC assessment, 48 percent of enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region consider code review and testing as one of the important tasks that AI could most effectively help developers streamline. GenAI Tools Market Development IDC research shows that the top areas of emphasis for utilizing AI/ML with testing include prioritizing tests, discovering the underlying cause of failed tests, creating test cases, plus self-healing and testing procedures. GenAI for test automation is becoming more popular amongst ...

Savvy CEOs have high expectations that their Information Technology (IT) organization will be a strategic enabler of Digital Transformation. However, there is often a mismatch with the IT talent demand, and their internal IT team's digital business skills. The roles and activities performed by IT professionals must evolve dramatically due to the demand for convergence of modern software development technologies, cloud computing platforms, and the creation of Everything-as-a-Service offerings. Many IT professionals will find themselves in hybrid roles that combine traditional development activities with activities that formerly were associated with operations professionals who historically had few or no development-oriented responsibilities. Enterprise IT Role Market Development A new International Data Corporation (IDC) market study provides an extended census and forecast with detail for both traditional IT operations roles, and these new hybrid roles. The data shows that a dramat...

The rapidly growing demand for modern enterprise software development skills and experience exceeds the current supply of qualified candidates. This increase has created a seller's market, where talented developers have the upper hand in negotiations with prospective employers. Moreover, the roles and responsibilities of developers continue to expand. International Data Corporation (IDC) survey results show that developers are the architects and visionaries of digital transformation and have an end-to-end line of sight into the processes that govern the creation of digital business solutions. This finding underscores the importance of software developers to both information technology (IT) vendors and buyers because developers have insights into how the operational efficiency of development processes can be improved. Enterprise Software DevOps Market Development "Given their role in designing, building, and executing digital strategies, developers have become indispensable to ...

The original concept of 'Hybrid Cloud' service deployment now seems outdated. In practice, few enterprise IT organizations have embraced private cloud models. And, even fewer will modernize their legacy non-cloud IT applications or the systems where they reside in the corporate data center. That said, new IT infrastructure investment continues to shift as more leaders execute their digital transformation plans. Many enterprise CIOs and CTOs prefer to develop customer-facing applications within public cloud environments, and then connect those Web services to apps and data that reside on legacy systems within their on-premises data center. The vendor impact is apparent. Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments -- including public and private cloud -- increased 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) while investments in traditional, non-cloud, infrastructure declined 16.3 percent ...

The global market for server virtualization technologies has experienced relatively low growth as more CIOs and CTOs consider alternative approaches to support their developer's need for agile IT infrastructure deployment. While some early adopters are experimenting with 'serverless' solutions, the mainstream market is utilizing software applications container solutions. According to the latest worldwide study by 451 Research, the emerging applications container market will continue to expand and be worth more than $2.1 billion in 2019 and more than $4.3 billion by 2022 – that's a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 percent. Application Container Market Development When 451 Research first published a forecast on the container market two years ago, there were 125 companies identified in their market analysis. Included in the most recent forecast is an examination of 184 vendors, which represents about a 50 percent increase from the number of vendors in late 20...

If you want to appreciate the full extent of the cloud computing phenomena, then you need to comprehend the ongoing impact to the IT ecosystem. It's been fueled by a disruptive series of innovations that have enabled software developers to accelerate the speed of digital transformation. The cloud delivery and consumption model has revolutionized the entire IT industry. But the cloud opportunity extends well beyond the public cloud -- which makes up less than half of all cloud-related spending today -- and includes private and hybrid clouds, as well as managed cloud services, cloud-related professional services, and hardware and software infrastructure for building clouds. Cloud Computing Market Development In its first forecast of the 'whole cloud' opportunity, International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that worldwide whole cloud revenues will reach $554 billion in 2021 -- that's more than double those of 2016. "The most obvious takeaway from this forec...

A new market study by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examined the commercial software environment and summarized the findings, assessing the IT DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CD) practices and related tools most relevant to managing online business services. "As the pace of business continues to accelerate, coordination across DevOps processes, practices, and tools becomes increasingly important," said Julie Craig, research director at EMA . DevOps and CD Tools Market Development This research provided insights into the ways in which high performing IT organizations are accelerating delivery of key business services and, in doing so, impacting the business bottom line. Research on these topics is particularly critical at this point in time. EMA is actively tracking what has amounted to a digital transformation movement -- and an accompanying revolution in software delivery -- that has occurred over the past five years. Today's rapidly changing and fast-...

Yet another market study has explored the challenges that IT organizations encounter, as they pursue the adoption of DevOps practices. More than 2,000 IT industry executives participated in a survey online and at tech industry events during 2016. The survey was completed in the United States, with respondents drawn from engineering, managerial, architect and C-level executive roles. Here's the key findings from this DevOps survey results: Fully 54 percent of respondents indicated they had no access to self-service infrastructure. This meant that more than half of respondents took a ticket-based approach to infrastructure delivery, impacting productivity and increasing time to market. Of those surveyed, only 23 percent said infrastructure can be delivered in less than one day. Over 33 percent of respondents said it takes up to a month to deliver infrastructure with 26 percent saying it takes up to one month or more to deliver infrastructure. Lack of access to the right infrast...

The healthcare landscape has been subject to significant turbulence due to a broad range of factors -- including escalating costs, widespread regulatory amendments, changing business models, and evolution of the patient-centric paradigm. That said, controlling rising costs and improving operational efficiency in the healthcare IT sector will be a high priority during 2017, as more hospital and clinic organizations seek to document the quality of their care and ramp up patient engagement. Healthcare IT Market Development By 2020, healthcare providers will more than double their spending on technology services, which represents a revenue opportunity of over $9 billion for the healthcare IT outsourcing (ITO) vendors, according to the latest market study by the Everest Group. The healthcare provider segment is poised to be one of the fastest growing segments in the healthcare IT services market in coming years. According to the study findings, accelerated IT investments on the pa...

Data center server virtualization and cloud computing requirements are evolving. More CIOs and IT managers will be deploying Linux container based solutions in 2017, as the market matures and the vendors gain new momentum with their go-to-market strategies. The market will grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020, according to the latest worldwide market study by 451 Research. Despite making up a relatively small portion of the overall Cloud-Enabling Technologies (CET) market, application containers will  experience a CAGR of 40 percent through 2020. The entire CET market  -- which includes virtualization, containers, Private PaaS, and other automation and management software -- is estimated to be worth approximately $23.1 billion in 2017. It is expected to grow at a 15 percent CAGR to $39.6 billion at year-end 2020. Application Container Market Development The application container market can be compared to the OpenStack market. But based on the numbe...

During 2015, CIOs and business technology managers joined the Line of Business leaders by moving more enterprise IT operations to cloud services. In 2016, it’s estimated that disaster recovery, IT helpdesk services, web content management and communication applications are all running in the cloud. That said, public cloud spending will accelerate rapidly, growing from $75 billion in 2015 to $522 billion by 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 percent. The public cloud service segment CAGR rates are: SaaS (19 percent), PaaS (33 percent), and IaaS (18 percent). By 2026, it’s now estimated that cloud computing will account for nearly 50 percent of all spending for enterprise IT hardware, software and outsourcing services, according to the findings of a recent market study that was sponsored by North Bridge, a growth equity and venture capital firm. Based on the findings from the ‘2016 Future of Cloud Computing’ survey, while ~50 percent of all companies either have a c...

Most savvy CEOs already know it requires accomplished talent to lead a digital transformation agenda. The execution of the key strategies often results in the development of software capabilities. That said, finding and retaining the qualified technical talent is likely to be one of the big challenges facing business leaders. We're in the early stages of a software developer skills shortage, according the the latest Cloud Foundry  global perception study. The majority of their survey respondents say there's a looming shortage of skilled developers. Most already feel the impact. They're having difficulty hiring and retaining technical staff. Key Findings from the study include: The majority (64%) of IT professionals and business executives agree that the developer shortage is a real threat to progress. Most respondents (57%) state that this shortage has already impacted their ability to hire skilled people. The developer shortage is most acutely felt by companies ...

Legacy insurance sector CIOs must embrace the innovation and disruption potential of technology start-ups to complement their own digital insurance strategies, according to the latest worldwide market study by Gartner. Sixty-four percent of the world's 25 largest insurance companies have already invested directly or indirectly -- via their venture capital arms -- in what Gartner refers to as the emerging Insurtech start-up market. Gartner predicts that 80 percent of life, property and casualty insurers globally will partner with or acquire Insurtech companies by the end of 2018. Analysts believe that these pioneers can stimulate or accelerate innovation among incumbent industry players, and complement existing digital transformation strategies. Insuretech Market Development Opportunities "Gartner has seen growing interest among insurance business and IT leaders in collaborating with Insurtechs or making them part of their overall innovation policies, but most insurance...

As 2016 comes to a close, industry analysts start to share their outlook for next year, and beyond. International Data Corporation (IDC) has announced its worldwide information technology (IT) industry predictions. IDC foresees digital transformation (DX) attaining macroeconomic scale over the next three to four years, changing the way enterprises operate and reshaping global commerce. From their perspective, this is the dawn of the DX Economy. "We are at an inflection point as digital transformation efforts shift from 'project' or 'initiative' status to strategic business imperative," said Frank Gens, senior vice president at IDC . "Every growing enterprise, regardless of age or industry, must become 'digital native' in the way its executives and employees think, what they produce, and how they operate." Top Ten IDC Predictions for 2017 By 2020, 50 percent of the Global 2000 new growth will depend on their ability to create digitally...

Informed telecommunications service providers have reduced their infrastructure cost and improved their development agility by adopting open source software.  According to findings from a recent survey, 85.8 percent of telecom industry respondents consider OpenStack to be essential or important to their success. The survey, commissioned by the OpenStack Foundation, explores current usage and adoption plans of telecom service providers -- particularly with respect to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), 5G cellular communications, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise cloud computing. Facing unprecedented traffic and rapidly evolving customer expectations, telecom providers worldwide are accelerating their adoption of NFV to increase network agility and mitigate costs, and OpenStack has emerged as the NFV infrastructure platform of choice. OpenStack Market Development Results The OpenStack survey included 113 responses from representatives of telecom companies around th...

Worldwide mobility revenues are forecast to grow from $1.5 trillion in 2016 to more than $1.7 trillion in 2020, according to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC). That's a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.2 percent -- or about $40 billion in annual revenue gains. Mobility revenues will primarily come from purchases of hardware and connectivity services. However, software revenues will likely experience double-digit growth, as app developers meet the mobility needs of both consumers and businesses. Software revenue growth will result from investments in mobile application development platforms, new mobile enterprise use cases, and mobile enterprise security solutions. By 2020, spending on software will increase by 15 percent, driven by mobile DevOps and mobile security capabilities. Mobility Solutions Market Development "Despite the belief that the mobility market is maturing, there is still plenty of opportunity to drive enterprise spe...

Organizations with smaller IT teams, and many others, have already adopted hyper-converged technologies. According to the latest market study by 451 Research, hyperconverged infrastructure is used at 40 percent of companies, with more deployments expected during the next two years. Nearly one quarter of survey respondents indicated that they have these systems either in a current pilot, or included in future plans. The research uncovered that hyperconverged systems are evolving from prior network edge applications into a primary component of Hybrid IT infrastructure. The latest quarterly survey results indicate that 74.4 percent of the respondent organizations currently using hyperconverged have deployed the solutions in their central data centers, signaling a key transition. Hyperconverged Systems Market Development "Loyalties to traditional, standalone x86 servers are diminishing in today's IT ecosystems as managers adopt innovative technologies that eliminate multip...

More organizations across the globe are proactively making the move to embrace Digital Transformation methodologies. Why change now? Technology must be at the heart of every enterprise. It's time to "Go Digital, or Die," according to the latest worldwide market study by the Everest Group. To become truly digital, enterprises must develop a holistic IT applications and infrastructure strategy, with DevOps as the pivotal enabler. According to Everest Group research conducted during Q1 2016, over three-fourths of enterprises believe in leveraging digital technologies to achieve competitive differentiation. Digital Enterprise Market Development "Enterprises that embrace digital adoption are using technology to create new business, not just enable it. For example, enterprises are discovering how IoT and mobility can dramatically improve user experiences, which is unlike the traditional role of technology for driving efficiencies in back-office operations," said...

Enterprise IT infrastructure investment is now more software-defined within the typical data center. The market for hyper-converged integrated systems (HCIS) will grow 79 percent to reach almost $2 billion during 2016, according to the latest worldwide market study by Gartner. HCIS will be the fastest-growing segment of the overall market for integrated systems, reaching almost $5 billion by 2019. Although the overall integrated systems market is growing, other segments of this emerging market will likely experience cannibalization from hyperconverged systems. Gartner defines HCIS as a platform offering shared compute and storage resources -- based on software-defined object storage, software-defined compute, commodity hardware and a unified systems management interface. Gartner believes that hyperconverged systems deliver their greatest value through software tools, and thereby commoditizing the underlying hardware. Hyperconverged Systems Market Development "The integrate...