Frank Gens (@fgens) SVP & Chief Analyst at IDC sits down with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) live at Actifio Data Driven 2019 at the Intercontinental hotel in Boston MA
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https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/29/innovation-steroids-third-platform-will-move-tech-whole-new-gear-datadriven19-guestoftheweek/
Innovation in overdrive: ‘Third Platform’ will shift tech into high gear
Although the past decade has seen innovation at a pace and scale without precedent, it’s time to fasten those seat belts. The world is about to enter a new phase that will be innovation in which emerging technologies will be invented at light speed not by a few bright minds in isolation, but collectively by thousands at any one time.
That’s the conclusion of Frank Gens (pictured), senior vice president and chief analyst of IDC Research Inc. It’s his job to examine technology trends over the next few years and assess the broader, long-term impact on commerce and society.
What Gens sees is the beginning of what IDC has labeled the “Third Platform,” an evolution from the second platform that began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of web browsing and the internet. In the Third Platform, an explosion of edge computing, cloud, and on-premises offerings along with microservices application architectures will shift the tech world into a whole new gear.
“We’re at the threshold of a major scale up of innovation in this Third Platform era that’s very different from the last 10 or 12 years,” Gens said. “Being able to build something interesting quickly, using a lot of innovation from a lot of other people, then adding your special sauce; that’s going to take the scale of innovation up a couple of orders of magnitude.”
Gens spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Actifio Data Driven event in Boston. They discussed the impact of the open-source community on code development, cloud mobility in the enterprise, the transformation of all businesses into tech companies and potential government action to dismantle Big Tech (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)
This week, theCUBE features Frank Gens as our Guest of the Week.
Smartest people work elsewhere
In the 1990s, as the internet was beginning to gather steam, Microsoft Corp. had already become an industry powerhouse. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates made statements that his company achieved its success through a monopoly on acquiring people with the best talent and intelligence to work for it.
Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Bill Joy responded in the press with what became known as “Bill Joy’s Law.” He famously stated that, “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people in the world work for someone else.”
What if the smartest people in the world could work for any company without ever needing to be on a payroll? That’s the new era that Gens says is upon us, embodied by sites such as GitHub and the open-source ecosystem where communities of bright minds turn out new advances in technology at an astounding rate for the benefit of all.
“People might have deployed new code four times a year,” Gens said. “They’re now deploying it four times a minute. Now you’re part of a cloud-connected community of innovators.”
500 million apps in five years
Microservices architectures, such as Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Lambda, and the growth of application programming interface tools are enabling developers to move production apps more fully into the cloud. At the annual IDC Directions conference in March, Gens indicated that 500 million new apps will be created from 2018 to 2023. This equals the total amount generated over the past 40 years.
Of even greater significance is that innovative technology has gone mobile. Cloud mobility solutions, such as those offered by data recovery provider Actifio Inc. and others, have made it easier for businesses to move workloads between on-premises and cloud environments.
This trend was underscored most recently by the news that AT&T Corp. would be moving most of its 250,000 employees to Microsoft’s 365 package of productivity apps and services on the Azure cloud platform in a multi-billion-dollar deal.
“The public cloud stacks, where all of the innovation is basically happening in the industry, is jailbreaking that out through AWS Outposts or Azure Stack or Google Anthos,” Gens said. “Take me out to the edge. This movement of the cloud guys is to say we’ll take innovation out to wherever you need it.”
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(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Actifio Data Driven event. Neither Actifio Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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Frank Gens (@fgens) SVP & Chief Analyst at IDC sits down with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) live at Actifio Data Driven 2019 at the Intercontinental hotel in Boston MA
#DataDriven19 #Actifio #theCUBE
https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/29/innovation-steroids-third-platform-will-move-tech-whole-new-gear-datadriven19-guestoftheweek/
Innovation in overdrive: ‘Third Platform’ will shift tech into high gear
Although the past decade has seen innovation at a pace and scale without precedent, it’s time to fasten those seat belts. The world is about to enter a new phase that will be innovation in which emerging technologies will be invented at light speed not by a few bright minds in isolation, but collectively by thousands at any one time.
That’s the conclusion of Frank Gens (pictured), senior vice president and chief analyst of IDC Research Inc. It’s his job to examine technology trends over the next few years and assess the broader, long-term impact on commerce and society.
What Gens sees is the beginning of what IDC has labeled the “Third Platform,” an evolution from the second platform that began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of web browsing and the internet. In the Third Platform, an explosion of edge computing, cloud, and on-premises offerings along with microservices application architectures will shift the tech world into a whole new gear.
“We’re at the threshold of a major scale up of innovation in this Third Platform era that’s very different from the last 10 or 12 years,” Gens said. “Being able to build something interesting quickly, using a lot of innovation from a lot of other people, then adding your special sauce; that’s going to take the scale of innovation up a couple of orders of magnitude.”
Gens spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Actifio Data Driven event in Boston. They discussed the impact of the open-source community on code development, cloud mobility in the enterprise, the transformation of all businesses into tech companies and potential government action to dismantle Big Tech (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)
This week, theCUBE features Frank Gens as our Guest of the Week.
Smartest people work elsewhere
In the 1990s, as the internet was beginning to gather steam, Microsoft Corp. had already become an industry powerhouse. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates made statements that his company achieved its success through a monopoly on acquiring people with the best talent and intelligence to work for it.
Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Bill Joy responded in the press with what became known as “Bill Joy’s Law.” He famously stated that, “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people in the world work for someone else.”
What if the smartest people in the world could work for any company without ever needing to be on a payroll? That’s the new era that Gens says is upon us, embodied by sites such as GitHub and the open-source ecosystem where communities of bright minds turn out new advances in technology at an astounding rate for the benefit of all.
“People might have deployed new code four times a year,” Gens said. “They’re now deploying it four times a minute. Now you’re part of a cloud-connected community of innovators.”
500 million apps in five years
Microservices architectures, such as Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Lambda, and the growth of application programming interface tools are enabling developers to move production apps more fully into the cloud. At the annual IDC Directions conference in March, Gens indicated that 500 million new apps will be created from 2018 to 2023. This equals the total amount generated over the past 40 years.
Of even greater significance is that innovative technology has gone mobile. Cloud mobility solutions, such as those offered by data recovery provider Actifio Inc. and others, have made it easier for businesses to move workloads between on-premises and cloud environments.
This trend was underscored most recently by the news that AT&T Corp. would be moving most of its 250,000 employees to Microsoft’s 365 package of productivity apps and services on the Azure cloud platform in a multi-billion-dollar deal.
“The public cloud stacks, where all of the innovation is basically happening in the industry, is jailbreaking that out through AWS Outposts or Azure Stack or Google Anthos,” Gens said. “Take me out to the edge. This movement of the cloud guys is to say we’ll take innovation out to wherever you need it.”
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(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Actifio Data Driven event. Neither Actifio Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
