GEC NEWS WIREPredict the trends and thoughts around digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, workplace for tomorrow and Cyber security in 2016
As 2016 is all set to ring in, Dimension Data’s executive leaderships put their respective crystal balls on the table and read out their predictions on 4 key areas that would be dominating the 2016 IT landscape in the region.
Focusing on Cyber security, Matt Gyde, Dimension Data’s Group Executive – Security Business Unit says, “The CISO faces a new headache: digital complexity. CISOs will now have to have a hard look at new policies and processes to address this as an urgent item on the security agenda in 2016. Information security, like any other discipline, has to be re-evaluated and re-aligned as part of digital transformation. We’ll see CISOs moving more of their perimeter security controls to these platforms as part of the efforts to reduce their physical footprint and costs associated with traditional infrastructure.” He also noted that 2016 is set to be the year of hypervirtualised security.
Talking about the workspace of tomorrow, Tony Walt, Group Executive – End-user Computing Business Unit and Joe Manuele, Group Executive, Communications Business Unit of Dimension Data say in their blog that, “Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen radical changes in the way we work. The catchphrase, ‘work isn’t a place I go to, it’s something I do,’ has become a familiar refrain. According to them, work behaviours would be radically shaped by social media, enterprise mobility will move beyond BYOD, there will be a growing challenge to balance agility and standardisation due to cloud.
Talking on the hybrid cloud, Shelley Perry – Chief Product Officer, ITaaS, says that there will be an increase in private cloud adoption. There will be greater transparency and analytics of the spend to optimise infrastructure against business objectives. Perry also predicted that there will be a greater focus on managing security across virtual boundaries.
Coming to Digital infrastructure, Kevin Leahy – Group General Manager, Data Centre Business Unit, says that “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.” He advices IT leaders to Build infrastructures to support the new data model of the digital enterprise. I predict that IT leaders will start to look very closely at workload and usage plans, and how they can better align their IT costs with the overarching cost model of their business. Essentially it’s about adopting a business-focused approach to building your infrastructure, as opposed to a technology-centric one.
