ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
Regional datacentres
heading for revamp
A cloud-first priority, ageing datacentres, weak administration practices
and securing the edge are among a host of revamp challenges that
regional datacentre administrators are now facing. By Arun Shankar.
M
odernising datacentre
infrastructure is one of the top
investment priorities for Middle
East organisations, along with cloud and
Middle East CIOs are choosing software- with software-defined infrastructure,
defined solutions that can meet their SLA such as VMware Cloud Foundation,
requirements and scale up. or a do-it-yourself approach with
Four key aspects comprise the modern
hyper-converged infrastructure, such
information security, all three of which are datacentre: a foundation of hyper- as with VMware vSAN,” says Ossama
the foundations of digital transformation converged infrastructure, which can in Eldeeb, Senior Manager, MENA Partner
and new digital business models in the turn support virtual machines, virtual Organisation, VMware.
mobile cloud and Internet of Things eras. networks and virtual storage. In the Middle East CIOs are clamouring for software-driven and application-centric partners need to gain the knowledge and
modernised datacentres to drive IT and world, modern datacentres can reduce IT experience in deploying hyper-converged
business transformation. complexity, increase speed and agility, and infrastructure and, equally important,
scale up to meet future business needs, provide around-the-clock support to
to reduce IT infrastructure costs (39%), and leverage automation to configure, customers whose IT staff may not be
improve IT service levels (32%), and provision, deploy and secure applications. fully up-to-date on how to optimise
Globally, CIOs want modern datacentres
respond to new business requirements
“Channel partners can play a vital role
“In the Middle East, channel
their newfound datacentre solutions,”
(28%). Datacentre vendors need to realise in assisting Middle East CIOs in their that as the pace of technological change digital transformation and datacentre quickens, end-user organisations do not modernisation strategies. There are two Cloud shift
want to be locked into expensive and out- main challenges: whether to take an Gartner’s latest IT spending forecast shows
of-date hardware solutions. Increasingly, integrated cloud infrastructure platform that spending on datacentre systems is
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continues Eldeeb.
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