Autonomic systems that can modify their own algorithms without an external software updates will let businesses rapidly adapt to new conditions in the field, Gartner says. Autonomic systems for adapting to changing environmentsĪs enterprises spread out and adopt new security tactics, Gartner also looked at the technologies that will affect that evolution. By 2024, organizations adopting CSMA will reduce the financial impact of individual security incidents by an average of 90%, Groombridge said. Protecting this distributed data fabric will be the job of Gartner’s third big trend: the use of an overarching cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) that will let distributed enterprises deploy and extend security where it’s most needed. “Today, assets and users can be anywhere, meaning the traditional security perimeter is gone,” Groombridge said.ĬSMA is a composable approach that will bring integrated tools with common interfaces and APIs into the security process as needed. It will also provide centralized management, analytics, and intelligence about what is going on across the enterprise, and push out policies to users and services being accessed, Groombridge said.ĬSMA helps provide an integrated structure to secure all assets, regardless of location. “If data is the new oil, then a data fabric’s real value is its ability to dynamically improve data usage with its inbuilt analytics, cutting data management efforts by up to 70%,” Groombridge said. The result is that the fabric will unlock data that can be used by AI and analytics platforms to support new applications bring about business innovations more quickly, Groombridge said. Groombridge added that data-fabric deployments will also force significant network-topology readjustments and in some cases, to work effectively, could require their own edge-networking capabilities. “Data fabrics can provide integration and interconnectivity between multiple silos to unlock those resources.” “Data is widely scattered in many organization and some of that valuable data can be trapped in siloes,” Groombridge said. Hand-in-hand with that will be the increased use of data fabrics that integrate data across cloud and non-cloud platforms no matter where they are located. In the end, Gartner expects that by 2023, 75% of organizations that exploit the benefits of distributed enterprises will realize revenue growth 25% faster than competitors. Such operations will stress the network that supports users and consumers alike, and businesses will need to rearchitect and redesign to handle it. “For every organization, from retail to education, their delivery model has to be reconfigured to embrace distributed services,” Groombridge said. Driven by the massive growth in remote and hybrid working patterns, traditional office-centric organizations are evolving into geographically distributed enterprises.
The first of those trends is the growth of the distributed enterprise. Office-centric networks will give way to distributed enterprises “Most of these trends define technologies that together show how businesses will reconnect with partners and consumers to create scalable, resilient technical foundations for the future.” Gartner unwrapped its forecast at its virtual IT Symposium/Xpo Americas this week. “It is an overarching drive for organizations to do more with and scale the digital environments they have been rapidly developing during the pandemic,” said David Groombridge, research vice president at Gartner. Gartner: IT skills shortage hobbles cloud, edge, automation growth
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