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Hybrid multi-cloud adoption
leads to pressure to modernise
infrastructure
Atish Gude, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy
Officer (CSO), NetApp, tells us the move from on-
premises environments can unintentionally open the
door to increased IT complexity.
019 was a year of
rapid innovation – and
disruption – for both
the IT industry and
the broader business community.
With the widespread adoption of
hybrid multi-cloud as the de facto
architecture for enterprise customers,
organisations everywhere are under
tremendous pressure to modernise
their infrastructure and to deliver
tangible business value around data-
intensive applications and workloads.
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As a result, organisations
are shifting from on-premises
environments to using public cloud
services, building private clouds and
moving from disk to flash in data
centres – sometimes concurrently.
These transformations open the
door to enormous potential, but
they also introduce the unintended
consequence of increased IT
complexity. We predict that
a demand for simplicity and
customisability will be the number
one factor that drives IT purchasing
decisions in 2020. Vendors will need
to offer modern, flexible technologies
with the choice of how to use and to
consume those technologies so that
customers can keep pace with their
evolving business models.
As IT departments strive to de-
emphasise maintenance and
hardware, to reduce overheads, and
to adopt pay-as-you-go models,
simplicity and choice will be crucial.
Achieving this simplicity
will serve as the foundation
for companies as they navigate the
exciting technological
trends that we identify in the
following sections. ◊
ORGANISATIONS ARE SHIFTING
FROM ON-PREMISES ENVIRONMENTS
TO USING PUBLIC CLOUD SERVICES,
BUILDING PRIVATE CLOUDS AND
MOVING FROM DISK TO FLASH
IN DATA CENTRES – SOMETIMES
CONCURRENTLY.
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