It has become almost mandatory for enterprises to use cloud services, be on some social media platform or to encourage employees to bring their own devices to work.
Adoption of these technologies is important for organisations to create efficiencies, understand market dynamics and reach out to customers in the most effective way. This has accelerated the rate of business change in organisations and led to a faster transformation of the data centre.
The hardware landscape of the region’s enterprises has transformed to adapt to the cloud. Gone are the days where a typical data centre would have multiple servers, storage, networks and other enclosures in a siloed and cluttered architecture. Enterprise data centres in the region have graduated, using virtualisation to consolidate. Virtualisation means that while the amount of hardware is reduced, more computing power is provided via virtual machines.
The rate of virtualisation in the region’s enterprises is high, nd growing. Apart from virtualisation, other innovations are changing the technology landscape. One technology fuelling rapid transformation in data centres is converged infrastructure. A converged system is a mini data centre in a box. These systems contain the four important pillars of a data centre: server, storage, networking and management software. Converged infrastructure provides all the essentials for running a data centre with the certification and service of a single vendor, and so ensuring ease of deployment and troubleshooting.
One of the main benefits of converged systems is efficiency as these systems are “tuned to task". IDC expects the majority of computing power, applications and workloads to run on converged systems within five years.
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