By: Craig Kennedy
2022 Digital Operations—The Year in Review
As we approach the close of 2022, let’s to take a moment to reflect on some of the key milestones from 2022 across a couple of key technologies within digital operations.
What Happened in Cloud Computing in 2022?
2022 saw a shift in how enterprises prioritized their expansion to the cloud since the initial introduction of the public cloud by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006.
The focus of most enterprises for the initial 15 years of cloud availability was on whether the cloud providers could meet the security, availability and privacy their needs.
The maturity of container technology and the capability of Kubernetes to easily manage them has provided the option to embrace multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud as very viable deployment methods.
Throughout 2022, enterprises increasingly selected public-cloud options based on provider strengths and private-cloud solutions that best matched their unique workloads.
This all tied together with centralized orchestration using Kubernetes.
Aragon Research has been predicting the emergence and rise of a unified hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud solution with a unified management infrastructure for the last several years based on data residency, privacy, and business needs.
2022 saw an embracing of this any-cloud concept by enterprises.
What Happened in Cybersecurity in 2022?
On the negative side, cybercriminals ramped up their game throughout 2022 with increasing frequency, severity, and sophistication of attacks against enterprises and government agencies.
There’s no limit to targets, as schools, infrastructure, and businesses have all been equally targeted for extorsion, disruption, or espionage.
Ransomware continues to be the leading attack method, however increasingly, threat actors are gaining access and remaining stealthy to expand laterally while continuing to collect data to be exploited in the future.
In response, cybersecurity solution providers have been increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in their solutions.
Instead of waiting to react to cyberattacks, they are taking the fight to the cybercriminals by assessing assets real-time and taking proactive measures to secure them.
This next generation of cybersecurity solutions are changing the game, enabling organizations to much more effectively protect the assets within the enterprise.
Bottom Line
2022 saw some fundamental changes within digital operations for how organizations approach security and operations.
Advancements in the management of workloads across multiple cloud providers and extending cloud services to private-cloud operations have made it much easier for organizations to optimize solutions to match its unique workloads.
Cybersecurity providers are beginning to get the upper hand by leveraging AI and proactively securing the assets within organizations.
These trends are heading in the right direction, and we expect these to continue into 2023. Make sure your digital operations team is up to date with the latest trends and news.
This blog is a part of the Digital Operations blog series by Aragon Research’s Sr. Director of Research, Craig Kennedy.
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