FEATURE
AS WELL AS
REDUCED COSTS,
DATA CENTRE
MODERNISATION
CAN LEAD TO
GREATER IT
AGILITY AND
(AS A RESULT)
A MORE SOLID
FOUNDATION
UPON WHICH
TO BUILD YOUR
BUSINESS’
DIGITAL
RENOVATION.
how ambitious and well-planned) is surely
doomed to fail. That foundation is always
the data centre.
UK data centres are estimated to be
worth US$135 billion by 2025, with
business investment in data infrastructure
increasing by up to 11%. Indeed, as
the adoption of new technologies and
increasing digitisation of everything
generates more data, dependence on
data centres is only set to increase, with
revenues expected to boom as a result.
However, one of the major hurdles faced
by many businesses is ageing enterprise
data centre infrastructure. IDC claims that
the average data centre is 12 years old.
These data centres were simply not built to
accommodate perpetually scaling modern
demands in terms of server space, power
and cooling requirements. As such, any
major Digital Transformation should begin
by transforming the data centre itself.
As well as reduced costs, data centre
modernisation can lead to greater IT
agility and (as a result) a more solid
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foundation upon which to build your
business’ digital renovation. However,
building or transforming a data centre is
not a small task.
Mercifully, organisations have a number
of more flexible and cost-effective
alternative options available to them.
They can rent space from a cloud
hosting provider, house their hardware
in a colocation facility or opt for a hybrid
cloud solution – splitting their resources
between public clouds, private clouds, on-
premise servers and data centre suites.
Outsourcing to a colocation or public
cloud host is the fastest way to get your
resources online quickly and the upfront
investment will be less significant.
Cloud Solutions as part of Phase 1
The latest research from the Cloud Industry
Forum (CIF) discusses in great length the
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