Top It Operations Trends in 2022

The latest trends in IT Operations are changing the very assumptions about IT Ops and its role within organizations.

IT Operations have long described themselves as maintenance structures, overseeing data centers, delivering infrastructure projects, running business-critical systems. However, it is increasingly taking steps to become the leaders of innovation within organizations. The latest trends in IT Ops are now driving changes instead of simply absorbing them.

Business organizations are increasingly challenged to operate highly-scalable IT infrastructure—all while maintaining:

• Low costs
• High performance
• Minimal security risks

Both IT operations personnel and technology solutions are critical to achieving these goals. Maturing cloud infrastructure strategies gives rise to trends in the IT Operations domain that require organizations to invest in new technology trends and skills.

Here are some of the trends that will enable leaders to lay out pathways for creating a more robust, faster, and secure future.

Cloud-native platforms to keep up with disruptors

Companies that built their business on the public cloud from the ground up have become some of the biggest names today: over the last five years, the 15 largest unicorn IPOs were all digital natives. These companies are popping up across all industries, from banking to insurance to retail, and challenging the established businesses to catch up.

As a result, the latest trend across organizations is shifting to keep up with the agility and cost-effectiveness of digital natives. IT Ops teams increasingly feel the effects of a dramatic increase in public and private cloud budgets. Technology vendors and various partners actively engage with IT teams to make their cloud projects a success.

Cloud native platforms (CNPs) will help enterprises executive their urgent digital initiatives: Gartner estimates they will account for 95% of new digital initiatives by 2025. CNPs enable organizations to:

• Maximize their cloud computing potential by matching compute requirements with demand
• Enhance resilience and agility so that companies can deliver business value to customers faster.

Cloud native platforms enhance a range of digital workplace solutions and improve emerging automation technology processes and solutions. From orchestrating managed files transfers in a hybrid IT environment to synchronizing workloads and data pipelines across cloud platforms and applications, IT Ops will find increasing support in both infrastructure and application.

Plus, CNPs are a significant improvement over the conventional lift-and-shift approach that many teams have taken to the cloud. They offer more of the benefits of the cloud without adding any complexity to maintenance.

Rise of just-in-time infrastructure

For too long, companies have invested heavily in on-premises machinery. It required excessive maintenance even when it was not needed. However, cloud deployment enables I&O teams to deliver computing when and where it is required. It will increasingly make it easier to deploy on-demand cloud hardware possible.

This just-in-time structure also helps teams meet increasingly shorter timelines. A recent survey of tech leaders found that IT Operations teams must meet increasingly tight deadlines to meet business objectives. Technologies in deployment expect to reach adoption in the next 6-18 months. With this new structure, teams can deploy infrastructure as fast as possible in any needed location, such as data centers, the public cloud, wherever.

Time to deployment is a strong negotiating factor that helps give enterprises a strong position when competing with providers. Just-in-time infrastructure will lead an evolution in current providers’ relationships and broaden the option of provider solutions where feasible.