“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” – Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
Just over a year ago, we wrote about how enterprise infrastructure was being reimagined and remade, driven by the rapid adoption of cloud computing and rise of ML-driven applications. We had postulated that the biggest trends driving the next generation of enterprise software infrastructure would be (a) cloud-native applications across hybrid clouds, (b) abstraction/automation of infrastructure, (c) specialized hardware and hardware-optimized software, and (d) open source software.