Ever looked at a Gartner report? We talk about the Technology Adoption Roadmap for Midsize Enterprises 2022, and the cloud services you’re married to in this episode. Also, Joe’s drumming up business ideas, Allen’s laying down the law and Outlaw never forgets.

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Technology Adoption Roadmap for Midsize Enterprises 2022-2024

• Gartner Report Technology Adoption Roadmap for Midsize Enterprises 2022-2024More than 400 MSE’s interviewed (gartner.com)
• 53 technologies were mapped to adoption stage (pilot, deployed 2022, deploy in 2023), value and risk
• Value was determined by looking at the following factors
  • Increasing cost efficiency
  • Improving speed and agility
  • Enabling resilience
  • Enhancing employee productivity
• Deployment risk
  • Cybersecurity risks
  • Implementation cost
  • Talent availability
  • Vendor supply chain disruption
  • Geopolitical risks

Key Takeaways

• Cybersecurity
  • Investments prioritized in (M)anaged (D)etection and (R)response – this to deal with the growing threat of digital risks including things like ransomware
  • (S)ecure (A)ccess (S)ervice (E)dge is gaining traction for moving away from hardware based security solutions to cloud based security services
  • (Z)ero (T)rust (N)etwork (A)ccess is being evaluated to replace VPNs
• Future work environments
  • Investments are being made in hybrid and remote work environments over collaboration and productivity tools
    • Deployment of cloud security tools being prioritized to enable more security hybrid and remote work environments
    • DIstributed cloud systems and cloud storage are also being prioritized
  • (C)itizen (A)utomation and (D)evelopment (P)latforms are also being investigated to allow business users to leverage low-code services to help speed business decisions
  • NLP – Natural Language Processing appears to be something that businesses want to adopt but are falling behind on plans to deploy due to some challenges
    • Accuracy in language translation
    • Even though NLP has come a LONG way in the past couple years, the human language is still a very challenging problem to solve
• Productivity and Operation Efficiency
  • Experimenting with Enhanced Internet (cdsglobalcloud.com)
  • Investing in AI and Data Science and Machine Learning to help observe infrastructure across on-prem, cloud and edge computing
    • Comes with high deployment risks but still very highly adopted
  • Investments in 5g for larger demand of networking
  • Investments in API management PaaS
    • One of the problems here is talent shortages in this area of expertise (azure.microsoft.com)

Some of the high-value low-risk items being piloted

• Cloud Data Warehousing

High-value low-risk items deployed or being deployed

• Security Orchestration Automation and Response
• Digital Experience Monitoring
• Robotic Process Automation
• Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery
• Integration Platform as a Service
• SD-WAN (software-defined WAN)
• Network Detection and Response

High-value high risk

• Zero Trust Network Access
• Artificial Intelligence IT Operations – AIOps
• Cloud Application Discovery
• Hybrid Cloud Computing
• AI Cloud Services
• Cloud Managed Networks – CMNs

Who have you partnered with?

• Email Addresses
• Registrar
• Cloud Storage (Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud, etc)
• Backups (Do you still need them!?)
  • Contacts
  • Passwords
  • Photos

Tip of the Week

• Have a presentation to do? Slidev is a VueJs and markdown-based way to create slides. Because it’s web based you can do cool interactive type stuff, and it’s portable. Bonus: recording and camera view support built in. Thanks Dave! (sli.dev)
• There are a lot of great resources for Kubernetes on the official Kubernetes Certifications and Training page (kubernetes.io)
• Notes in iOS are pretty good now! Did you know you can use it for inline images, videos, along with note taking…. (youtube.com)
• Use Docker? Check out dive, it’s a tool for exploring a docker image, layer contents, and discovering ways to shrink the size of your Docker/OCI image. (github.com)

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