IDC’s Brian Clarke navigates the rising prices for IT supplies, services and talent and how IT Executives should most efficiently address them.
With cloud emerging as the leading operating/delivery/technology model for digital transformation and competing in a digital-first world, senior IT and business leaders must pay attention and react to the new fundamentals of clouds when making investment and partnership decisions.
While Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is more than 10 years old, the technology has not captured a level of market success commensurate with its mindshare – and has indeed lagged either SaaS or IaaS in terms of market presence. Yet in spite of its slow market growth, PaaS technology has continued to diversify and evolve to support the intensifying developer need for agility and productivity, especially as developers have assumed a front seat at the enterprise digital transformation table.