The cloud has opened our eyes to the possibilities of greater agility, automation, efficiency and simplicity.
These attributes are now being delivered in the data centre. It still possesses the crown jewels, but is now more open and connected.
Digitisation, personalisation and real-time contextual connections are driving new and better customer experiences – all delivered by apps. You may have just a few. You may have 100s, or even 1000s. Either way, apps are the lifeblood of your business.
Data is also taking centre stage. How you manage it, your ability to extract intelligence from it, and your ability to act on it in real time are sources of competitive advantage.
The pressure is to move to the cloud. Yet not all apps and workloads are suitable. Not all can be migrated.
Legacy apps and those deployed in hybrid and public cloud must all exist in tandem. All the while the IT domain is fragmenting.
In the age of software defined networking, we’re at a crossroads in how you think about your infrastructure.
Whatever you decide, it can feel like you’re building on quicksand.
But what if you had a different approach?
Turn the page right to take our quick-fire poll on your top challenges in the data centre.
Top 10 challenges for IT in the data centre
