GEC NEWS WIREEMC revealed results from a new UAE-based study exposing increasing concern among business and IT leaders over the inadequacy of their current IT infrastructure and the skills of IT professionals as organizations plan to run a customer-focused business.
According to the study, 72% of respondents say the greatest IT challenge for businesses today is the need to transform to a service–based business, followed by the ability to extract value from greater volumes of data. Ranking second is leveraging the opportunity to enable real-time business operations. In addition, five years from now, more than half of the respondents want to launch products, services and applications in half the time it takes today.
80% of the respondents surveyed feel that implementing a more advanced and agile IT infrastructure would reduce risk and complexity and provide a solid platform for future growth.
Said Akar, Regional Director at VCE, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the 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. IT needs to be free to focus on meeting business goals. A converged infrastructure will enable it to do so.”
