FEATURE: IoT
THE LATEST GARTNER
RESEARCH FORECASTS
SPENDING ON THESE
SYSTEMS TO INCREASE
AT 19% YEAR-ON-YEAR,
TO REACH $20.4B BY
2019, REPRESENTING
NEARLY A QUARTER
(22.6%) OF DATA
CENTRE INVESTMENTS
BY THAT TIME
SAID AKAR
Regional Director, Turkey,
Eastern Europe, Africa, and
Middle East – VCE
IT services, updating and patching
one type of infrastructure or another.
With data needs rising 40-50% per
year, automating and simplifying this
element is key to unlocking a new
wave of productivity for enterprises
who are bracing for even more
digitisation into the future.
Conclusions
The move to convergence comes
from well understood business drivers
– efficiency, scale, availability, etc.
In a context where businesses are
gearing up for growth once again
we cannot have a case in which
“computer says no”.
CIOs around the globe are
increasingly turning to converged
infrastructure – fully integrated
systems with compute, storage and
network – for simplicity, agility and
speed. The latest Gartner research
forecasts spending on these systems
to increase at 19% year-on-year, to
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reach $20.4b by 2019, representing
nearly a quarter (22.6%) of data centre
investments by that time.
Clearly there’s a huge trend in this
market, but one of the things that’s
interesting about the transition taking
place are the key trigger points causing
people to transform their data centres
with converged infrastructure now. After
all, the shift to converged infrastructure
represents a significant change for
organisations, who will move from
having completely separate and siloed
network, storage, and compute resource
teams to now being able to centrally
manage all of these technologies in one
system and free up resources to drive
business innovation.
IT has to deliver innovation rather
than maintenance and I believe, based
on our experience, that converged
infrastructure is the only option
available to a strategic CIO.
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