The cloud sector continues to transform as hyperscalers, managed service providers, global systems integrators, hardware vendors and independent software vendors advance overlapping visions for IT infrastructure and application modernization enabled by automation and powered by the disruptive promise of generative AI. Developer services, integration, automation and business processes take on new importance as modern enterprise IT environments mature and we transition from the "era of cloud" to the "era of AI."
Discover the ten key trends that the 451 Research analysts anticipate in 2026.
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Introduction:
The year ahead holds significant promise for IT, especially considering the recent upheaval that swept across the field. Enterprises scrambled to address the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and vendors and service providers pivoted to fill the needs that these shifts created. This report looks at five key areas in IT that will have significant impacts today and in the near future. They are bound together by the need to more closely connect technology to the people who interact with it, shifting technology from an end to a means. Technology must serve new models of work, meld dispersed elements of infrastructure, and inform and enhance customer experience while securing the systems and information that drive it.
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