9 enterprise tech trends for 2017 and beyond

We learned that the emerging ecosystem of containers, microservices, cloud scalability, devops, application monitoring, and streaming analytics is not a fad. It's the future, already powering Silicon Valley's and Seattle's most advanced tech companies. Throw in machine learning and IoT and you have a comprehensive framework for the next phase of enterprise IT, with continuous improvement as its founding principle. At the same time, we became more aware of the widening gulf between this new world and most existing enterprise IT operations. That's why the hoary phrase "digital transformation" refuses to die -- the leap from legacy to modernity requires profound, multiphase, across-the-board change.