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FEATURE: 2020: THE CIO’S PRIORITIES
tools needed to evolve to the next frontier,
with smarter and faster decision making for
organisations in 2020.”
Eltjo Hofstee, Managing
Director at Leaseweb UK
“As the drive for reducing energy
consumption to benefit the environment
reaches an all-time high, we predict that an
increased demand for virtualisation will be a
key route to achieving sustainability in data
centre operations. Virtual servers use far
less energy than their physical counterparts
Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing
technology to operate within a smaller
hardware design. In fact, some companies
have already announced that they will be
launching HCI Edge Compute clusters that
are no bigger than a cup of coffee.
“By 2020, it is expected that 80% of all
devices will have an Artificial Intelligence
(AI) feature. While the cloud has provided
AI the platform it needed to grow to the
level of being available on nearly every
technological device, the combination of
HCI and Edge Computing will give AI the
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Eltjo Hofstee, Managing Director at
Leaseweb UK
as they share a lot of resources, yet enable
IT teams to fully utilise the capacity of a
physical server to run the same environment
virtually, and in many cases without
compromising performance. In comparison
with on-premises hosting, data centres
have some of the most advanced tools and
capabilities of any sector for improving
energy efficiency – so why not use them?” n
MORE
ORGANISATIONS
ARE TURNING TO
HYPERCONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE
(HCI) AND EDGE
COMPUTING TO
CAPTURE DATA AT
THE SOURCE OF
CREATION.
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