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FEATURE: DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
Why every organisation
should truly ‘own’ their
data centre to gain
competitive advantage
Change as a result of Digital
Transformation is inevitable
in the current digital era and
enterprises should be scaling
their network infrastructure
correctly and utilising the
most appropriate data centre
solutions. JR Rivers, Co-
founder and CTO, Cumulus
Networks, discusses the
importance of a modernised
approach to IT and improving
operational efficiency.
www.intelligentcio.com
D
igital Transformation means different things to different
organisations. Perhaps it means shifting workloads to the cloud,
digging deeper into data analytics, giving employees more
options for mobility or automating more processes. But one thing’s for
sure: no matter what your Digital Transformation strategy looks like,
your network is going to be either the hero or a hindrance to your Digital
Transformation efforts.
This is largely due to the fact that applications have gained
unprecedented importance as the means by which organisations define
themselves and their relationships with their customers. Therefore, a
company’s success is linked to how nimbly they can develop and deliver
applications that facilitate engagement and business outcomes.
If applications are the lifeblood of today’s organisations, networks are
the digital nervous systems that support and deliver those applications.
The problem is, while application architectures and development
methods have become more agile, the traditional data centre network
has not kept pace.
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