2014 Infrastructure Mainstream
Web-Scale IT
What Gartner Predicted
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Enterprises would adopt the practices of large cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, and Facebook — including DevOps, automation, and horizontally scalable architectures.
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Prediction Accuracy
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DevOps, containers, and CI/CD became enterprise standard. But the prediction lacked specific falsifiable claims — any cloud adoption validates it, and many enterprises still run plenty of non-web-scale infrastructure.