Expediting IT in the Wake of Ever-increasing Demands and Problematic Talent Shortages

IT innovation comes in waves. Cloud IT disrupted the last decade, and server virtualisation disrupted the decade before that. Looking forward, the next wave of disruption will likely center on intelligent infrastructure.
The IT infrastructure itself must get smarter, leveraging advancing learning techniques such as machine learning, in order to understand the whole environment, including the unique demands of different applications. A smart infrastructure will not only better inform IT admins, it will also be able to leverage automation to take effective action to overcome problems, and ultimately resolve issues by itself.