Cloud Therapists ULTIMATE Projections For 2026 - Part 1

Описание: In this information-packed episode of Cloud State Of Play, my regular guest, Paul Bevan and I look at what's in store for the IT/Tech Industry in 2026. We give you a massive information dump on various categories of IT/Tech, including AI Agents, Agentic AI, Observability, Platform Engineering, Sovereignty, Public Clouds, Open Source Software, Cloud Native and much, much more!

Come and join us for Part 1, here, for our Projections for the year ahead.
Review with us how we did on our Projections from last year and tell us what YOU think about our Projections, as we read out a huge list of Predictions that others have made and see whether we agree with them or not!

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Categories for this Projections episode are:
PART 1:
06:45 0 - Projections 2025 Review
14:38 1 - DevOps/Platform Engineering
20:40 2 - Generative AI
34:40 3 - Observability
44:30 4 - Cloud Repatriation + Sovereignty
57:07 5 - Supercloud/Other Category/Paul's Choice
01:03:32 6 - Cloud Security + Networking
01:10:45 7 - Open Source Software/Cloud Native
PART 2: (COMING SOON!)
8 - Cloud Economics
9 - Cloud Data Management/Storage/Data Fabric
10 - Data Centre
11 - M&A
12 - IT Industry Predictions

=== 1 - DevOps/Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering Org:
https://rb.gy/f6lxnn

=== 2 - Generative AI

Google AI Agents Trends 2026:
https://tinyurl.com/3zj86nxn

GenAI Trends For 2026 - Andreas Horn:
https://tinyurl.com/4fjtsxz3

=== 3 - Observability

2026 Observability Predictions: AI, Trust & Democratization - Logz.io:
https://tinyurl.com/3367snrp

Six observability predictions for 2026 - Dynatrace:
https://tinyurl.com/yprd6dwe

2026 observability trends and predictions - Grafana Labs:
https://tinyurl.com/4te2fsdw

=== 4 - Cloud Repatriation + Sovereignty

"I think what will happen here is that Cloud Repatriation will be forgotten for this year and be replaced by Sovereignty!" - Cloud Therapist.

Why 2026 is year of Sovereign Clouds:
https://tinyurl.com/34ee57t2

AWS ESC:
https://tinyurl.com/576hpv9

Microsoft Azure European Sovereign Cloud:
https://tinyurl.com/2m3eu5nn

IBM Sovereign Core:
https://tinyurl.com/5ukj2mv5

Google + T-Systems - Google Sovereign Cloud:
https://tinyurl.com/57eusac6
https://tinyurl.com/jj5xe2vc
https://tinyurl.com/55ch3fbt

Deutsche Telekom + T-Systems (Open Sovereign Cloud):
https://tinyurl.com/3ey6tnnh

Deutsche Telekom + T-Systems (Industrial AI Cloud):
https://tinyurl.com/pza27k5f

AI Giga Factory:
https://tinyurl.com/3e6n5hks
https://tinyurl.com/mvdhu5jm

Eurostack:
https://tinyurl.com/54x2s94c
https://tinyurl.com/fnybptdr

46:25 Cloud Abstraction Layer
Unfortunately, due to legal issues, I cannot disclose this chart here, even though I have already presented it publicly! However, what I can do is offer a description of it, below (chart from top to bottom):

Supercloud Layer:
Run in local (data centre) or trusted (managed service) environment and will include Supercloud Tools such as:
HPE Morpheus, StackGuardian, Fluid Cloud, Hexaware, TDS, Emma Cloud.
This layer is where Observability, Platform Engineering, DevOps/SecOps, Cloud Data Management, CloudOps/SRE and Automation/IaC tools will all run, as part of the Supercloud and use tools such as: Crossplane, Kyverno, Soacelift, kro and Pulumi.
GitOps Layer:
Hyperscaler Cloud Build Automation (Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Bicep/ARM, etc.)
API Layer:
Hyperscaler Cloud Runtime (Instances, xKS, ECS, etc.)
Infra Layer:
Hyperscaler Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)

56:46 Sovereign AI Framework charts:
https://tinyurl.com/4972axbp
https://tinyurl.com/2vkkrjfd

=== 5 - Supercloud/Other Category/Paul's Choice

My choice for Supercloud tools for this year was HPE Morpheus, which I saw a presentation on, at the Gartner IOCS Conference in London, October 2025:
https://tinyurl.com/ys4a4h9w

Other tools in the Supercloud category include: StackGuardian, Hexaware, FluidCloud, TDS, Emma Cloud (emma.ms); Crossplane, kro, Spacelift, Kyverno.

=== 6 - Cloud Security + Networking

Aviatrix Predictions for 2026: Embrace The ChAIos!!
https://tinyurl.com/mrxkks3y
https://tinyurl.com/snr6mfy7

Jason Lau's Cyber Security Predictions 2026:
https://tinyurl.com/a6u8knr9

=== 7 - Open Source Software/Cloud Native

ZDNet - Linux Unstoppable in 2026:
https://tinyurl.com/mrx55n9d

Linux Insider - Open Source in 2026 Faces Defining Moment:
https://tinyurl.com/ssuxmjdp

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Thanks to Paul Bevan, for his insights. All opinions expressed in this video are solely of the person who gave them and do not reflect opinions/stance/policy of any other person(s)/employer(s)/organisations/entities/vendors, etc. All copyrights are of their respective owners and are used here (in various formats) purely for reference purposes and under fair use policy. E&OE.

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Intro + Outro Track: "Know Myself" - Patrick Patrikios (YouTube Music Library).

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