INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES
Speed, SDN,
API and hybrid,
driving datacentre
transformation
Speed, interoperability, software managed and services
architecture will be the principle criteria for datacentre
transformation in 2018.
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n today’s world of digital disruption,
every business perceives itself as being
under threat and, as a result, most
are making a conscious decision to choose
speed over cost. This is manifesting itself
in some interesting behaviour shifts by
enterprise IT leaders.
Speed trumps cost
In 2018, we will see them moving away
from conducting lengthy, in-depth total
cost of ownership analyses when making
decisions about which technology to invest
in and, instead, choosing the technology or
platform that they can leverage the fastest.
And, in their quest to deliver the speed
that the business needs to drive digital
transformation, IT leaders will intensify
their efforts to identify and eliminate the
inhibitors of speed.
Increasingly, organisations will recognise
the extent to which they depend on their
networks to keep up with the speed of the
cloud, and look for ways to ensure that their
networks can perform at the same pace as
their compute and storage environments.
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In the year ahead, we will also see more
businesses exploiting software-defined
networking and network virtualisation
across the network in the datacentre, hybrid
WAN and the campus as part of their efforts
to transform their networks.
In 2018, it will be important for
organisations to identify the technologies
and platforms that will deliver the
business outcome they need, at the
required speed. For example, instead of
continuing to implement multiple tiers of
legacy storage devices, some will conclude
that they can move faster by only using
flash storage.
Leveraging tools
The organisations that will achieve digital
supremacy in 2018 will be those that
capitalise on new tools that enable their
developers to innovate and create new
sources of competitive differentiation.
Developers need access to new tools and
the flexibility to create new business
models. They have to be able to support
new application types, using modern
Using SaaS to ensure that their
non-core focus areas are running
optimally will enable organisation
to focus their resources on creating
and evolving their differentiation
capability elsewhere.
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INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS