7 trends driving compute infrastructure innovation

Tony Harvey is a senior research director at Gartner and covers a variety of infrastructure topics.

COVID-19 accelerated the shift to digital business, forcing infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams to accelerate delivery of scalable, agile systems to enable digital business transformation.

According to a recent survey, 69% of boards have responded to COVID-19 with digital business acceleration, while 60% have chosen improving operational excellence through digital business.

Transformations that would normally have taken decades were executed by I&O within weeks and months, enabling enterprises to keep running during the lockdown while also developing the distributed enterprise—one that uses digital capabilities to support hybrid and remote workers, and delivers services to consumers both remotely and in person....