IT is under pressure to act at speed, to deliver transformational change, to adopt new digital technologies and tools, and to respond to the ever-changing behaviour and expectations of customers. But all of this must be underpinned by a robust and secure IT infrastructure. This is especially true when the applications and services being delivered are mission-critical to the business.
There is little that is dull in this industry, with the rapid pace of IT innovation, agile infrastructure and the need for data to be close to customers and employees wherever they are. In the data centre, this means servers, networks and storage.
Today, the data centre is being built as a hybrid cloud – with some applications residing and being managed in the data centre and others sourced from the cloud. Security, performance and compliance or regulatory requirements are the criteria that drive the decision between on-premises and the cloud.