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THE DATA CENTRE OF TOMORROW
Doing things
differently
By Angelo Apa, Technical Sales
and Business Development
Director, Lenovo DCG -
www.lenovo.com/data-center
IT infrastructure will be the key
enabler of digital transformation
underpinning successful
IT initiatives
Some businesses are born digital. Others are burdened by
legacy technology and have a lot to do to get up to speed.
Regardless, all strive to achieve a journey without limits. And,
in the era of emerging technologies and technical capabilities,
it’s clear that doing things different in digital is going to be a
competitive advantage.
This has created an avalanche of opportunity. Emerging
technologies, like AI and AR, all promise vast potential for
digital advantage, but every business in 2018 and beyond
needs to find its own way to stand out from the crowd of
adopters.
Operating differently
Innovation and opportunity are moving at light speed. This
has created a vortex of challenges as businesses seek to
emerge from the constraints of legacy technology. Without
the flexibility of a modern data centre underpinning IT
initiatives, digital transformation and the adoption of
emerging technologies is doomed to stutter and fail. Those
who achieve ‘ultimate agility’ in the data centre will flourish
as their IT platforms attune to ever-evolving business needs.
The speed at which you operate is your most strategic
asset. You need to be able to seamlessly add services,
applications and workloads to meet modern-day customer
requirements. This is where flexibility proves crucial. One size
does not fit all, and you need to consider the vast amount of
technologies entering the data centre, and what’s required to
realise their benefits.
The best of both worlds
Many businesses have reservations about moving their
entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. A hybrid IT environment,
offering the best of the private and public cloud worlds, is
best to meet both business and IT goals. Perhaps the most
significant benefit is it means innovative technologies can be
integrated as and when needed – a key ability in the quickly
changing landscape of emerging technologies and digital
capabilities.
Not only will a hybrid approach enable greater flexibility,
but it will also result in a better total cost of ownership (TCO),
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