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Top IT trends to watch in 2016 digital infrastructure

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Data is at the core of

• Enterprises with digitalstrategies will expandexternal data sourcesby three to five fold anddelivery of data to themarket by 100 fold ormore. (IDC)

here’s why

• By 2020, the digitaluniverse — the data wecreate and copyannually — will reach 44zettabytes. (IDC & EMC)

• Some 74% of US and65% of Europeanadults now regularlyshop online.(Forrester)

digital transformation.

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Data lies at the core of the digital enterprise. But this isn’t just about collecting, storing and processing data – it’s also about what you do with it. Today, the data that you have access to has the potential to fundamentally change the way your organisation operates … and the outcomes your business stakeholders expect.

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The role of data has fundamentally changed. For many years, data centre professionals would concentrate much of their time and energy on things like storage drives and backups, replication and de-duplication. Now, that’s all changed. Today it’s all about honing your ability to exploit data and finding ways to turn it into business value.

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It’s all about understanding your data … and how to exploit it

Trend 1: digital infrastructure

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Once you’ve clarified your data-related aspirations, the next step is to build an infrastructure to support them and identify what changes this will require. IT leaders should start laying the foundations for fit-for-purpose infrastructures that support the new data paradigm … and apply their minds to how they bring cloud, networks, and security together to create a hybrid IT environment.

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Build infrastructures to support the new data model of the digital enterprise

Trend 2: digital infrastructure

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To build a digital enterprise you need to look further than just the infrastructure. IT leaders should ask: ‘How is my infrastructure going to evolve over time and how can I align the way I pay for it with the way my business needs it?’ It’s about adopting a business-focused approach to building your infrastructure, as opposed to a technology-centric one.

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All on board! Alignment with the business is critical

Trend 3: digital infrastructure

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Some organisations are still running 40-year-old COBOL applications and processing multiple releases a day – in some cases up to hundreds of thousands! This requires that you relook your processes. It’s impractical to make changes manually on a daily basis, rather implement a high level of automation. Furthermore, development and operations teams must work cooperatively to determine what the business really needs.

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Keeping up with the rate of change requires calls for automation … and a cultural shift

Trend 4: digital infrastructure

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To succeed in the digital world is to ensure that you look at the business outcomes you’re looking to achieve first, and treat the technology as the enabler. Now’s not the time to get caught up in the ‘speeds and feeds’.

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Technology’s core value lies in its ability to enable the business

Trend 5: digital infrastructure

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