This first Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Strategies takes off from where the "Hype Cycle for Virtualization, 2015" landed. The "hype" for virtualization with hypervisors is diminishing in this increasingly mature market. Rather than fade away, virtualization is being refreshed and reiterated with new bimodal use cases, continuing to abstract software from hardware at the host. Containers and microservices are evolving with Mode 2 technologies and applications that measure the consumption of resources, rather than provision. These are equivalent to a utility company charging for watts used, rather than calculating from volts and amps generated and supplied — creating a more granular resource control model.
The Nexus of Forces, through to the Internet of Things (IoT), is creating a continuous stream of new technologies requiring provisioning and orchestration, where old approaches fall short or are incomplete. The Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Strategies involves software-defined anything (SDx) infrastructures and data centers, which extend to machines, homes, adapters and sensors. This drives big data analytics — in-memory functions driving bigger storage pools and tiers, which, in turn, accelerate the growth of big data.
Infrastructure strategies support new modes of operation for infrastructure and operations (I&O), while accommodating traditional legacy ones. They also track existing mainstream technologies that can be classified as Mode 1, allowing the continuing evolution of Mode 2 (see "Infrastructure Agility Primer for 2016" ), and they encompass all forms of hybrid data center architecture, including private and public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud platforms.
Business Impact: The use of host-based controls in cloud computing environments is desirable as these can scale automatically as the workloads they are protecting spin up and down. Furthermore, the protection can move with the workload across on-premises and public cloud IaaS in hybrid data center configurations. Although nothing can materially change the balance in securing against system attacks, security control isolation is a worthwhile step forward.
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