《基础设施平台技术成熟度曲线 (2024) 》

来源：Gartner近期发布的《Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Platforms，2024》，本文选取的是报告中“战略规划假设（Strategic Planning Assumptions）”章节部分。



基础设施平台在支持企业对灵活性和安全性的需求的同时，还能够使数字商业战略成为可能。基础设施与运营领导者应该利用这一技术成熟度发展周期来为提供有效的基础设施平台能力做好准备。

Infrastructure platforms support enterprise requirements for flexibility and security while enabling digital business strategies. I&O leaders should leverage this Hype Cycle to prepare for the delivery of effective infrastructure platform capabilities.



到2028年，超过50%的基础设施与运营（I&O）组织将建立基础设施平台工程（IPE）小组，较2024年的不到25%有所增加。

By 2028, more than 50% of infrastructure and operations (I&O) organizations will have formed infrastructure platform engineering (IPE) groups, up from less than 25% in 2024.

到2028年，超过80%的新基础设施服务将由IPE小组提供，较2024年的不到10%有所增加。

By 2028, more than 80% of new infrastructure services will be sourced by IPE groups, up from less than 10% in 2024.

主要推动I&O基础设施平台增长的因素包括：

•对敏捷和弹性技术解决方案的需求

•采用云原生技术

•基础设施平台工程作为现代化IT基础设施的关键使能器

•孤立的遗留基础设施工具提供的边际价值

•需要抽象化基础设施解决方案并减少对消费者的认知负荷

•整合AI技术

The forces that are primarily responsible for driving the growth of I&O infrastructure platforms are:

•The need for agile and resilient technological solutions

•Adoption of cloud-native technology

•Infrastructure platform engineering as a key enabler for modernizing IT infrastructure

•Siloed legacy infrastructure tools providing marginal value

•The need to abstract infrastructure solutions and reduce cognitive load on consumers

•Incorporation of AI technologies



商业压力，包括上市速度和成本效率，继续给基础设施与运营（I&O）团队带来额外挑战。团队必须提供解决方案，将I&O传统强调的安全性和稳健性与满足这些商业挑战所需的敏捷性和速度相结合。实现这些目标涉及包括本地部署和云部署在内的混合环境。

Business pressures, including speed to market and cost efficiencies, continue to place additional challenges on I&O teams. Teams must provide solutions that combine the safety and soundness that I&O traditionally has stressed, with the agility and speed desired to meet these business challenges. Achieving these goals involves hybrid environments including on-premises and cloud deployments.



采用可编程基础设施已嵌入了一种API驱动的方法来管理基础设施，以支持现代应用程序和服务。额外的商业压力（特别是对敏捷性、成本效率、安全性和弹性的更紧密结合）增加了对I&O解决方案的需求，以支持这些举措。

The adoption of programmable infrastructure has embedded an API-driven approach to managing infrastructure in support of modern applications and services. Additional business pressure (specifically an even tighter tethering of agility, cost efficiencies, security and resiliency) has increased the need for I&O solutions to support these initiatives.



基础设施平台团队在Gartner客户中继续获得认可，将产品焦点（围绕基础设施平台）融入到服务交付中。I&O领导者必须采纳敏捷的工作方法和实践，这些方法和实践能够提高能力、效率、弹性、客户中心性和交付创新，以使变革成功、可靠且可持续。

Infrastructure platform teams continue to gain traction among Gartner clients, embedding a product focus (centered around infrastructure platforms) to the delivery of services. I&O leaders must embrace agile methods of working and practices that improve capability, efficiency, resilience, customer centricity and innovation in delivery to make transformation efforts successful, reliable and sustainable.



多年来，I&O部署了提供边际价值的孤立工具。随着企业合理化这些投资，持续推动寻找可能从这些不同的遗留工具中提取价值的工具。

Through the years, I&O has deployed siloed tools that have delivered marginal value. As enterprises rationalize these investments, there is a continual push to seek tooling that might be able to derive some value from these disparate legacy tools.



AI以两种关键方式影响基础设施平台：

•首先，AI正在被融入基础设施平台的工程和运营中；它们旨在帮助基础设施人员部署和管理基础设施平台（例如，增强智能平台和事件智能解决方案，甚至在编程基础设施中）。

•其次，基础设施平台将需要运行AI或机器学习（ML）工作负载（例如，增强容器管理和承载AI工作负载的云原生部署）。

AI is impacting infrastructure platforms in two key ways:

•First, AI is being incorporated in the engineering and operations of infrastructure platforms; they are intended to help infrastructure staff in deploying and managing infrastructure platforms (e.g., enhancing intelligent platforms and event intelligence solutions, and even in programming infrastructure).

•Second, infrastructure platforms will need to run AI and/or ML workloads (e.g., enhancing container management and cloud-native deployments that carry AI workloads).







基础设施平台是I&O交付价值的关键，同时管理成本和风险。I&O领导者必须将基础设施平台视为实现DevOps、容器、混合IT、边缘计算、通信基础设施应用程序以及以平台工程为驱动的方法交付业务解决方案的整体趋势的使能器。

Infrastructure platforms are key to I&O’s ability to deliver value while managing cost and risk. I&O leaders must view infrastructure platforms as an enabler for the overarching trends of DevOps, container, hybrid IT, edge computing, communications infrastructure applications and platform-engineering-driven approaches to delivering business solutions.



在接下来的2～5年内，预计第二代基础设施平台将持续发展，这些平台将是可扩展的、由API驱动的，并且围绕自动化任务（如修复）而设计。许多目前正在涌现的平台将发展和成熟，以提供实实在在的企业价值。这将包括更加专注于从传统基础设施投资中获得价值。

During the next two to five years, anticipate continual evolution of second-generation infrastructure platforms that are extensible, API-driven and centered around automation for tasks like remediation. Many of the platforms currently emerging will have evolved and matured to provide tangible enterprise value. This will include an increased focus on gaining value from legacy infrastructure investments.



后期阶段的基础设施平台在许多情况下会改变它们的重点，通常会重新对齐到一组特定的服务。这些产品也将拥有重新设计的能力，融入第二代基础设施平台中的特性。

Later-stage infrastructure platforms will, in many cases, change their focus, often realigning to a subset of services. These offerings will also have reengineered capabilities, incorporating attributes that are in the second-generation infrastructure platforms.



将有更加协调一致的关注点放在基础设施平台工程团队上，以及纳入那些让团队能够高效运作并为基础设施服务的消费者提供真正价值的原则和实践。

There will be a more concerted focus on infrastructure platform engineering teams and the incorporation of principles and practices that enable these teams to efficiently function and provide real value to consumers of infrastructure services.



关键的焦点将是从基础设施资源中实现实际价值。这包括继续从旧有工具中提取价值，以及使最终用户能够跟踪和衡量基础设施的价值。

The key focus will be on achieving tangible value from infrastructure resources. This includes continuing to derive value from legacy tools and also enabling end users to track and measure infrastructure value.