In 2014, we will see further synergies between and APM SaaS and DevOps to a create delivery model that will allow for rapid deployment, rapid development cycles (days instead of weeks and months), and ultimately - continuous delivery.
Exciting advances in big data, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence will enable us to move closer to intelligent, proactive, and pre-emptive application performance management.
We will see further market diversification, as more SMEs and non-technical lines of business realise the need to have command and control over ever-more dispersed and diverse IT ecosystems, combined with the relatively low cost of doing so through the SaaS pay-as-you-go model.
The decentralization of application management and speed of change will be further accelerated by growing adoption of Platform as a Service, with an increased number of private PaaS deployments in large corporations joining the public PaaS services that developers have flocked to.
Jim Young is Information Development Manager, IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure