Intelligent Data Centres Issue 07 | Page 34

NOTE ello and welcome to the latest edition of Intelligent Data Centres. This month, our cover story features Porsche Informatik, a subsidiary of Porsche Holding and part of the Volkswagen Group, which wanted to modernise its data centre. H The company chose to work with its long- term partner, VMware, to achieve this and after deploying a number of data centre solutions, it has boosted its security, accelerated time-to-market for products and increased its IT efficiency through automation. Peter Friedwagner, Head of Infrastructure and Common Platforms at Porsche Informatik, talks us through the implementation and outlines how it has provided a strong foundation for the company’s software developers and employees in order to drive digitalisation of the automotive industry. In our first feature this month, we discover how businesses and organisations across the region are increasingly adopting Digital Transformation strategies – and why data centre and cloud solutions are an integral component of achieving digitalisation goals. Meanwhile, our ‘Editor’s Question’ this month is focused on the ongoing shift to the Edge. Research carried out by Business Critical Solutions (BCS) 34 Issue 07 LYNCHPIN MEDIA TEAM MANAGEMENT MANAGING PARTNER Richard Judd richard@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 7534 132 966 MANAGING PARTNER Stuart Lynch stuart@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 7514 807 117 EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR AND EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO ME, ICIO KUWAIT AND INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS revealed that half of those surveyed for the business’ The Summer Report, said they believed Edge Computing would be the biggest driver of new data centres. Three industry experts from Scale Computing, Next Generation Data and Veeam have their say on whether they agree on pages 30-32. To round off this edition, we ‘Deep Dive’ with Daniel Pope, CEO, Submer Technologies, who tells us about life inside and outside the office. As always, there’s also a round-up of all the latest news in the data centre sector, while our ‘intelligent’ brands section looks at what’s new in operations, infrastructure, power and cooling, and facilities. Mark Bowen mark@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 20 3884 2225 EDITOR, INTELLIGENT DATA CENTRES AND I NTELLIGENT CISO Jess Phillips jess@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 203 890 4069 EDITOR, I NTELLIGENT CIO EUROPE Alix Pressley alix@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 20 3884 2225 EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO AFRICA Paul Rogers paul@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 20 3890 4084 EDITOR, INTELLIGENT CIO INDIA Partha Srinivasan partha@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +91 909 681 6957 DESIGN HEAD OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Pippa Sanderson pippa@lynchpinmedia.co.uk HEAD OF DIGITAL SERVICES Charles Brandreth charles@lynchpinmedia.co.uk WEB AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER Josh Peace josh@lynchpinmedia.co.uk SALES & MARKETING COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR SALES MANAGER MARKETING AND OPERATIONS MANAGER Michal Zylinski michal@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +48 883 746 917 Amy Poole amy@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +971 52 883 0211 Curtis Driscoll curtis@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +44 20 3884 2536 COUNTRY PARTNERS I hope you enjoy the magazine and if you’d like to contribute to any future issues please do not hesitate to contact me by emailing: jess@lynchpinmedia.co.uk COUNTRY MANAGER – KUWAIT Rajesh Gandhi rajesh@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +965 6601 3056 COUNTRY MANAGER – KUWAIT Feroz Tapiya feroz@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +965 6616 6052 COUNTRY MANAGER – INDIA Partha Srinivasan partha@lynchpinmedia.co.uk +91 909 681 6957 Lynchpin Media © 2019 Jess Phillips Editor Intelligent Data Centres is a Lynchpin Media publication for IT data centre professionals. If you wish to subscribe for regular copies then please email info@lynchpinmedia.co.uk Lynchpin Media is a boutique publisher registered in the United Kingdom. Company number 8096230. 5 Burnside Court, Leominster Enterprise Park, Herefordshire, HR6 0LX www.intelligentdatacentres.com