2014 Infrastructure Mainstream
Software-Defined Anything
What Gartner Predicted
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Software-defined networking (SDN), storage, data centers, and security would grow as organizations sought to automate and abstract infrastructure management.
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Prediction Accuracy
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SDN, IaC (Terraform, Kubernetes) became standard practice. But 'software-defined anything' is so broad it's nearly unfalsifiable — any automation counts as validation.