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infrastrucure management

THE APP CENTRIC APPROACH

Businesses are transforming the way they work , with this digital transformation making companies increasingly dependent on hundreds – or in some cases thousands – of applications which power every imaginable business process . This boom in applications can create an infrastructure management headache , which often leads to management storage to the lowest common denominator . However , this approach tends to be exceedingly expensive and painfully inefficient . Rich Fenton , UK and Ireland systems engineering manager , Nimble Storage , looks at how organisations can deploy a policy framework which will allow them to treat each application according to its bespoke requirements , without the management headache .
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