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MY OWN
PERSONAL
RECOMMENDATION
TO ANY CIO
READING THIS
WOULD BE TO
THINK VERY
CAREFULLY
ABOUT WHERE
YOU ARE PUTTING
YOUR DATA AND
KEEP IN CONTROL
OF IT.
you’re going to have to pay a significant
uplift to take your data back. So I’d suggest
understanding why you’re doing that, what
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the cost is of doing that and why it makes
sense for your business. containerisation is transformative – in a Big
Data world, this is massively disruptive.
What plans do you have in place
moving forward and what trends
do you expect to see evolving? Do you think that the demand
for technology innovation will
ever slow in pace?
We have plans to continue to grow. In
terms of our market plans, we could
think about the domains of our business:
redefining collected experiences at the Edge
which involves security, connectivity and
analytics; optimising our customers’ hybrid
environment in terms of the balance of
helping people understand how best to take
advantage of public cloud technologies –
one of the big trends there is the embedding
of technology and embedding intelligence
within technology. Humankind is incredible and what’s been
achieved over many years on this planet
with innovators and with passionate
people driving transformation forward will
never be diminished. Humans will always
want to push the boundaries of research
and innovation. That will continue and
so it should. Ultimately, the purpose of
our company is to bring together really
smart people with incredible technology to
advance the way that we all live and work. I
truly believe in that purpose.
Most of the demand that’s being driven
around data centre capacity is, in my
opinion, around AI and Big Data outcomes. The power of technology is huge in solving
some of the greatest problems on the
planet. Nothing will stop humankind
continuing to move forward and in terms of
whether robotics will replace workers and
take jobs – I think this has been said many
times before about many technologies and I
think all of it is additive to humankind, rather
than negative. n
The data sets are becoming so different
and there’s an opportunity to look at how
technology is architected, particularly
when you want to move things in and out
of the cloud and protect your data. I think
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