7. Chief data officers: More organisations will implement chief data officers, resulting in a bigger emphasis on data and analytics (D&A) governance initiatives throughout the industry. Solarwinds’ Head Geek, Sascha Giese
8. Tools, technology, and processes: While businesses continue to navigate the new normal, tech pros will be tasked with maintaining and supporting hybrid workplaces by implementing new tools and technologies. To keep up with the pace of change, they’ll also need to continuously re-evaluate existing tools and processes. Tech pros should take a step back and review the goals of refining processes or implementing a new tool. Are you aiming to enhance visibility or eliminate silos? Improve communication, reduce bottlenecks, or enhance the user experience? When introducing changes, consider the holistic impact on those responsible for implementing these updates and the end users. As you evaluate new tools or business processes, focus on the value these changes will bring to the organisation.” Solarwinds’ Head Geek, Leon Adato
9. Fine-tune skillsets: Tech pros will start to fine-tune their skillsets and focus more on nontechnical skills to enhance their career.
Solarwinds’ Head Geek, Kevin Kline
10. Normalising risk aversion: Cybercrime has reached a new peak with the onslaught of ransomware attacks and data breaches in the last several months. The 2021 SolarWinds IT Trends Report details how organisations experienced medium exposure to enterprise IT risk over the past year. Although the survey respondents felt their existing risk mitigation and management policies/ procedures were sufficient, it’s absolutely critical for organisations and tech pros to adopt a mentality where even “medium” risk exposure is unacceptable. We expect to see two trends emerge in 2022 in response to the evolving threat landscape: As the rate of attacks continues to accelerate in lockstep with hackers’ attack methodologies and schemes developing at scale, more tech professionals and organisations will look to cloud service providers, managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs), and other third-party security tools (like those offered by Microsoft 365 subscriptions) to supplement their own IT policies and keep pace with the new, more effective security measures.
Solarwinds’ Head Geek, Liz Beavers
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11. Detection, monitoring, alerts, and response: Tech pros and the IT community at large will better secure their enterprise by normalising a sense of risk aversion - that is, moving from simply accepting the current exposure to a mindset where any level of risk exposure is unacceptable. This means beginning to evaluate and implement the principles of a secure enterprise, starting first and foremost with understanding security compromises will happen as cyber hackers deploy more sophisticated attacks. Tech pros should also implement detection, monitoring, alerts, and response along the kill chain and engage in red team/tabletop exercises to measure effectiveness.
Solarwinds’ Head Geek, Chrystal Taylor
12. “DBAs will start to disappear: The rise of automation over recent years has been a disaster for traditional database administrators (DBAs). More and more systems and processes have been automated with code, and as a result, the need for DBAs as we know them today is changing. In 2022, we’ll start to see the traditional DBA role evolve into something new - say, a database architect or database engineer - in response to these shifts. No longer should DBAs see themselves as purely operational or focused on maintenance of the data estate. Instead, as automation empowers them to take on higher- level, more proactive, and more innovative work, their role will increasingly focus on how to turn data into actionable insights capable of keeping the business moving forward. Solarwinds’ Head Geek, Thomas LaRock
13. Gigabit speed: The Government’s focus on Gigabit Britain will, in theory, provide 85% of the population with “access” to a Gigabit-speed line, essential for home working. Once this takes place, we may see more balanced economic development across the whole country, reviving areas which have perhaps been left behind. It is a natural progression and with the Government outlining its objective for Gigabit Britain by 2025, it is clear this is now the direction in which we are collectively moving. The critical focus must be on making sure that every individual is able to take part and ‘connect’. Connectivity providers must play their part and recognise that it is time to provide dedicated support to all market participants, so that they can take full advantage of the advances in speed, stability and security. Kalam Meah, ISP Director, TP-Link UK
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