November 2021 – chiefmartec

Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spend Forecast

Half $1 trillion software in the cloud: feeding The Great App Explosion and Big Ops

November 26, 2021

“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money,” the late US Senator Everett Dirkson apocryphally quipped. A few months ago, Gartner published the above chart with their latest estimates on cloud spending worldwide for 2021 and 2022. The lede here is that total spend on cloud-based services — SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, […]

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Higher order effects of automation in Big Ops

November 13, 2021

For the past year I’ve been talking about a shift from Big Data to Big Ops. In short, today’s challenges with business technology are less about managing a huge volume of data — Big Data — most of which wound up in a basement-level data lake, outside the reach of everyday business users. Instead, we’re

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Composability Achieves Both Stability & Agility

The Composable Enterprise brings us into The Great App Explosion & Big Ops

November 1, 2021

Traditional business thinking views change as risk, while composable thinking is the means to master the risk of accelerating change and to create new business value.” Monika Sinha, Research VP, Gartner That’s a quote from Monika Sinha, a research VP at Gartner, announcing the 2022 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Agenda. The “composable enterprise” is

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