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/////////////////////////////////////////////////// t cht lk ENABLING SMART DATA MANAGEMENT TO EXTRACT BUSINESS VALUE Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is in the business of delivering breakthrough technologies helping customers transform industries, markets and lives. Intelligent CIO talks to Marc Waters, Managing Director UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa, HPE, about the future of data management, operating at the Edge and the pace of technical innovation. W What are the expectations of data management in the next 12 months? Data is vital for every single organisation, so companies are now looking at their data management platforms and strategies and considering how to move data. I think the expectations of data management are surrounding how you move data from the Edge to the cloud. We see what we call data gravity which means that the size of the data centre is so huge that it becomes hard to move data. This is particularly when you start applying intelligence to video, for example. What you don’t want is for your data centre to get so www.intelligentcio.com huge that gravity holds data back from being moved to a different location to analyse it before moving it back. Firstly, it becomes slower and then the cost of maths of doing it becomes prohibitive so we see the need to analyse data at the point of leave and at the point of action where there are large sets and then you manage and move back only the data that you need into your cloud-enabled environment, rather than moving everything back. So, your data management platforms enabling that is really important. So, what we consider now is how intelligence has become embedded in the very fabric of “ MY EXPECTATION IS THAT INTELLIGENCE WILL CONTINUE TO TRANSFORM DATA MANAGEMENT FROM THE EDGE TO THE CLOUD. INTELLIGENTCIO 67