TALKING BUSINESS
APIS HAVE BEEN
AN INTEGRAL PART
OF OPEN SOURCE
FOR A WHILE, AND
IN 2017 THE NEED
FOR GOOD QUALITY
APIS INCREASES.
SMOOTH AND EASY
INTEGRATIONS
FUEL SWIFT
IMPLEMENTATIONS
AND OPEN THE DOOR
TO SPEEDY, FEATURE
RICH DEPLOYMENTS.
VENDORS WHO DO NOT
PROVIDE GOOD APIS
WILL MISS OUT IN 2017
MOHAMMED AL-MONEER
Regional Director, MENA,
A10 Networks
which improves the scalability and stability
of applications at a price that is easier for
organizations to swallow.
5
Enterprise DevOps
adoption intensifies. Until
recently, DevOps stymied the enterprise.
They knew they needed to adopt this
new skillset and the principles that come
with it, but through a lack of available
talent and ambiguous definitions,
they’ve been left a bit in the dark.
As DevOps tools and processes become
more mainstream, enterprises in 2017
will finally be able to take advantage
of DevOps and break down the barriers
between developers and IT.
6
Automation. Automation.
Automation. Next year, automation
becomes more important. Mainly fueled
by enterprise DevOps adoption, the
automation of software delivery and
infrastructure changes will free developers
to spend more time creating and less
time worrying about infrastructure.
Development teams want to leverage
large amounts of powerful software
quickly; improved automation allows this.
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Service providers leverage
OpenStack. OpenStack’s
maturity, combined with its inherent
cost savings, will drive more service
providers to deploy it as their open-
source software of choice to power
private and public clouds. OpenStack
makes it easier and cheaper for service
providers to hire developers to build
what they need rather than buying a
bulky proprietary solution and making
limited customisations.
Hundreds of companies already use
OpenStack to control their compute,
storage and networking resources, and
its friendliness with heterogeneous
infrastructure makes it an ideal solution
for service providers who don’t want
to be tied to a single cloud solution.
OpenStack will be a strong contender
in the service provider market for years
to come.
8
Enterprises look toward
public clouds. For most
enterprises, their main focus isn’t
technology. Businesses want turnkey
offerings versus customised and
specialised solutions. As such, 2017
will be the year enterprises lean more
heavily on public cloud providers.
9
Common Service APIs grow
in importance. APIs have been
an integral part of open source for a
while, and in 2017 the need for good
quality APIs increases. Smooth and easy
integrations fuel swift implementations
and open the door to speedy, feature
rich deployments. Vendors who do not
provide good APIs will miss out in 2017.
Open-source projects will continue
to emerge to further development
using RESTful APIs, which deliver
application back-end services and other
functionality.
10
Architectures get
more standardised. The
implementation of frameworks will
make most infrastructure look the same,
which will lead to cloud infrastructure
looking similar because the underlying
infrastructure is more services-based
versus network topology. For businesses,
this means they’ll care less about the
infrastructure itself and more about the
services that power it.
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