GEC NEWS WIREEMC unveiled the findings of an EMEA wide survey that spoke to 2741 C-suite and frontline employees in both IT and business roles in companies with 50 to 1,000 or more employees, representing different sectors in 13 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (including UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar). The research sees a concern among CIOs that their current IT infrastructure and the skills of their IT professionals may not be enough to meet long-term needs as technology becomes embedded across the business.
The findings indicate that three-quarters of CIOs believe that five years from now they will need to be able to launch new products, services and applications in half the time it takes them today. 41 percent say that extracting value from ever greater volumes of data is the top IT challenge facing the business, with 37 percent expecting this to still be the top challenge in 2019.
Nigel Moulton, EMEA CTO at VCE, the Converged Platforms Division of EMC said, “The research casts new light on current attitudes towards IT within businesses of all sizes. To reclaim full control, CIOs and their IT teams need to stop spending so much time building and managing different infrastructure components. Instead they need to transform IT into an efficient business-focused engine that can scale rapidly in response to changing business needs.”
Said Akar, Regional Director at VCE, the Converged Platforms Division of EMC Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Middle East Region said, “A powerful infrastructure will deliver the high performance, scalability and agility the business needs. Too much effort is still spent simply keeping the operational lights on, when the business needs to focus on developing and releasing new, value-added products and services.”
