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Hybrid multi-cloud adoption
leads to pressure to
modernise infrastructure
Atish Gude, Senior Vice
President and Chief Strategy
Officer (CSO), NetApp,
tells us the move from on-
premise environments can
unintentionally open the door
to increased IT complexity.
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019 was a year of rapid innovation
and disruption for both the IT industry
and the broader business community.
With the widespread adoption of hybrid
multi-cloud as the de facto architecture
for enterprise customers, organisations
everywhere are under tremendous pressure
to modernise their infrastructure and to
deliver tangible business value around data-
intensive applications and workloads.
As a result, organisations are shifting from on-
premises environments to using public cloud
services, building private clouds and moving
from disk to flash in data centres – sometimes
concurrently. These transformations open
the door to enormous potential, but they also
introduce the unintended consequence of
increased IT complexity.
We predict that a demand for simplicity and
customisability will be the number one factor
that drives IT purchasing decisions in 2020.
Vendors will need to offer modern, flexible
technologies with the choice of how to use
and to consume those technologies so that
customers can keep pace with their evolving
business models.
As IT departments strive to de-emphasise
maintenance and hardware, to reduce
overheads, and to adopt pay-as-you-go
models, simplicity and choice will be crucial.
Achieving this simplicity will serve as
the foundation for companies as they
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navigate the exciting technological trends that we identify in the
following sections.
1. As the advent of 5G makes AI-driven Internet of Things
(IoT) a reality, Edge Computing environments are primed to
become even more disruptive than cloud was. In preparation
for the widespread emergence of 5G, lower-cost sensors and
maturing AI applications will be used to build compute-intensive
Edge environments. This effort will lay the groundwork for high-
bandwidth, low-latency AI-driven IoT environments with the
potential for huge innovation and disruption.
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