GEC NEWS WIRESetting up a roundtable of ‘Future’, EC MEA welcomed all the IT decision makers, CIOs, CTOs, and IT Heads from across the verticals to be a part of this and evaluate the penetration of CI in this market and the success that it has tasted so far.
On very rare occasions future tip toes on a roundtable. On the Converged Infrastructure Redefined Roundtable…. It actually did! Held at the Armani Hotel, Burj Khalifa, the roundtable was attended by IT decision makers from Banking, finance, government, construction, retail and property groups. Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra, Editor of Enterprise Channels MEA welcomed the delegates and underlined the crucial roles played by the government organizations in revamping the infrastructural capabilities of the region. As the moderator of the event, he took the audience through a small journey into the infrastructure world in the MEA and prompted on the key factors of IoT, Big Data, Cloud etc that would be playing a pivotal role in the next gen data centers. The IT Heads explored the various challenges and opportunities that they see in their respective organizations and what they look forward to induce into their IT infrastructure- being the change makers in the organization.
Converged Infrastructure and Hyper converged infrastructure spell the future of business today. According to an IT Candor report, the overall converged infrastructure systems market will grow by 9% ($5.5 Billion) of the total data centre product market between by 2018. As the Middle Eastern economy is on the crystal ball of all the economic soothsayers, organizations in this region are increasingly trying to curb their investments and adopt a cost-effective business model— as promised by the CI.
Being the Numero Uno in market share and Gartner MQ positioning, with 96% customer support, more than 50% YoY growth in past 6 quarters, VCE addressed the various pivotal and pressing challenges faced by IT senior decision makers in creating organisational strategy and design of on-premise data centres; repercussions of IT and Network transformation on data centre design and architecture; how to manage the performance, efficiency and resilience of the critical environment; and how to make effective global IT infrastructure sourcing decisions.
“Every Business is digital business. Today IT is no more a department that assists CFOs to cut cost.. IT is at the centre of all business opportunity” said Tom O’Reily, CTO Africa and ME, VCE. According to Tom, a great number of businesses would be defined and redefined by Digital business and the result of the digital business is that competition is coming from all over. Taking the course of conversation to big data, Tom said the sensors are a very vital part of big data.
Reflecting on to the significance of cloud in the next gen data centre, Tom said that “Cloud is the key for application transformation, infrastructure transformation, and operating model transformation. Align workloads with most suitable cloud model and empower them for mobile and big data solutions. Build a cost efficient, agile and infrastructure to enable private and hybrid cloud and package and orchestra services for agile IT operations and convenient consumption.”
He explained how VCE VSCALE Architecture enables an industry shift to converged infrastructure products. “Today enterprise automation doesn’t really have a home and looking at the way the organizations are moving, the c level executives may or may not believe that it belongs to the IT”. He stressed on the important role of CIOs in making the organization believe that enterprise automation is the right place to be, now. As the next gen organizations would be defined by apps and automations, The VCE Vscale architecture enables organizations to flexibly apply resources to changing application needs.
Marking an end to the event, Sanjay said that, the private sectors have to be the torchbearer in bringing this change and they need to invest on the infrastructure to be more vibrant and relevant to the market.
