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Enterprise infrastructure and operations teams will have to cope with economic and geopolitical pressures as they pivot to support new technologies and ways of working, according to new Gartner research about four trends that will impact cloud, data center and edge infrastructure in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gartner VP Analyst Paul Delory believes those external forces, and not IT infrastructure, will be the biggest problems organizations face. Infrastructure and operations teams \u201cwill have a vital role to play in ameliorating\u201d their effects, Delory said during Gartner\u2019s recent IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies conference, as quoted in a company press release. This will be a year of \u201crefocusing, retooling, and rethinking\u201d infrastructure, he noted.<\/p>\n

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Top cloud, data center and edge infrastructure trends<\/h2>\n

Trend 1: Cloud teams will optimize and refactor cloud infrastructure<\/h3>\n

Even though the usage of public cloud is pervasive, many deployments are ad hoc and poorly implemented. To make clouds more efficient, resilient and cost-effective, I&O teams should reexamine infrastructure that was hastily assembled or poorly architected.<\/p>\n

Refactoring cloud infrastructure should focus on optimizing costs<\/a>. This can be done through a series of steps that starts with eliminating redundant, overbuilt or unused cloud infrastructure, as well as building business resilience rather than service-level redundancy; using cloud infrastructure as a way to mitigate supply chain disruptions; and modernizing infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The work will pay off: According to Gartner, 65% of application workloads will be optimal or ready for cloud delivery by 2027, up from 45% in 2022.<\/p>\n

Trend 2: New application architectures will demand new kinds of infrastructure<\/h3>\n

New and growing demands from new types of infrastructure \u2014 including edge infrastructure for data-intensive use cases, non-x86 architectures for specialized workloads, serverless edge architectures and 5G mobile service \u2014 continually challenge I&O teams. Gartner predicts 15% of on-premises production workloads will run in containers by 2026, up from less than 5% in 2022.<\/p>\n

To prepare, I&O professionals must evaluate alternative options with care, focusing on their ability to manage, integrate and transform in the face of constraints on time, talent and resources. \u201cDon\u2019t revert to traditional methods or solutions just because they\u2019ve worked well in the past,\u201d Delory advised, as quoted in the press release. \u201cChallenging periods are times to innovate and find new solutions to meet business demands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trend 3: Data center teams will adopt cloud principles on-premises<\/h3>\n

Data centers are declining as organizations turn to platform-based co-location providers. Used in tandem with new as-a-service models for physical infrastructure can mimic cloud-like services with economic benefits in on-premises infrastructure.<\/p>\n

According to Gartner, 35% of data center infrastructure will be managed from a cloud-based control plane by 2027, up from less than 10% in 2022. Three steps I&O professionals should focus on this year:<\/p>\n