CIO
opinion
CIO
OPINION
“
THE ONUS IS
ON CIOS AND
CTOS TO ENSURE
THAT THEIR
DATA STORAGE
STRATEGY AND
INFRASTRUCTURE
ALLOWS THE
ORGANISATION
TO EXTRACT
MAXIMUM VALUE
FROM THEIR DATA.
“
need to have discussions about where the
next terabyte is coming from, or how it will
be delivered. The simplification of data
management that this offers opens up the
opportunity for data scientists, researchers
and designers to focus on their data
pipelines and enhancing design processes,
rather than talking about infrastructure. MULTI-CLOUD
DEPLOYMENT
HAS NOW BECOME
THE NORM.
Being able to shift data and workloads
between clouds to take advantage of multi- cloud and hybrid architectures as cloud
usage and the data regulation landscape
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evolves, is going to become a key capability
for IT teams. In parallel, getting data storage
infrastructure and dataflow right will be
essential to equip organisations to take
advantage of the machine learning and
AI technologies that leading businesses
are already deploying. As we head through
2018, the onus is on CIOs and CTOs to
ensure that their data storage strategy and
infrastructure allows the organisation to
extract maximum value from their data. n
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