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News

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  • Daniel Kastinen
• The call for speakers is open till December 15th for Orlando Code Camp
• Sony announces a9 III: World's first full-frame global shutter camera (dpreview.com)

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)