By 2025, the carbon emissions of hyperscale cloud services will be a top three criterion in cloud purchase decisions, according to Gartner, Inc. As environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities and reporting received growing levels of enterprise attention, more than 90% of organizations increased their investments in sustainability programs since the start of the pandemic compared to investments in 2017.
Read MoreWidespread home-based working will result in the elimination of billions of commuter journeys and a decline in office-based working environments of 22%, according to a new study by Strategy Analytics.
Read MoreVendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, increased 2.2% in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) while investments in traditional, non-cloud, infrastructure plunged 16.3% year over year (YoY) according to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker.
Read MoreWorldwide container management revenue will grow strongly from a small base of $465.8 million in 2020, to reach $944 million in 2024, according to a new forecast from Gartner. Among the various subsegments, public cloud container orchestration and serverless container offerings will experience the most significant growth. This is the first time Gartner has published a forecast for container management, in response to the increasing importance of the underlying technology.
Read MoreBy the end of 2024, 75% of organizations will shift from piloting to implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is one of the top 10 data and analytics (D&A) technology trends for 2020 that analysts at Gartner say will help organizations prepare for a post-pandemic reset.
Read MoreDespite the growing number of vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure services, containers and other products with a prominent role in cloud enablement, cyber hygiene is still the biggest risk, security analysts at Skybox Research recently revealed in their 2019 Cloud Trends Report.
Read MoreBy 2022, 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform, with only 5% ever considered for repatriation to on-premises, according to Gartner, Inc. This trend will largely be due to databases used for analytics, and the software-as a-service (SaaS) model.
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