Gartner IT Infrastructure Transformation Predictions

Gartner has published its latest insights on trends shaping the future of infrastructure and while the full piece dives deep into evolving tech and strategy, I’ve boiled it down to four key takeaways:

• Trend 1: Optimisation and refactoring of existing infrastructure is becoming critical, especially as organisations face economic pressures and the need to modernise without fully ripping and replacing.
• Trend 2: Containerisation and cloud-native architectures continue to dominate, driving agility, scalability, and portability across environments.
• Trend 3: On-premises infrastructure is evolving into API-driven models, aiming to offer cloud-like experiences even within data centres.
• Trend 4: Upskilling is non-negotiable—teams will need continuous training to keep pace with all of the above shifts.

While these are all valid observations, my own take is that Sustainability and Impact (aka Green IT) will soon take centre stage, perhaps even overtaking trends like on-prem API abstraction. With growing regulatory, environmental, and social pressure, businesses are being asked not just how they build infrastructure—but what impact it has. Whether it’s optimising compute to reduce carbon, making smarter hardware choices, or measuring energy usage more transparently, green tech is moving from side-note to strategy.