DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
2019: THE YEAR
OF DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
IN THE DATA CENTRE
The ongoing emergence
of new technologies
means that the data
centre is constantly
evolving. Ehab Kanary,
Vice President of
Enterprise, Middle East
and Africa, CommScope,
discusses the Digital
Transformation that
data centres will undergo
in 2019.
‘D
igital Transformation’ in the
data centre has achieved
buzzword status among media
and marketers everywhere, but there are
real benefits to be gained from embracing
the migration from manual, analogue
information systems to automated digital
ones. Diverse companies like Boeing,
Google, IBM and Uber achieve notable
successes by embracing digital processes.
CEOs of other companies are catching on.
According to IDC, annual spending on
Digital Transformation (DX) initiatives in
the Middle East, Turkey and Africa is set
to cross the US$20 billion (Dh73,4 bn)
mark by the end of 2018. And by 2020,
the Middle East’s data centre spending
and investment is expected to reach a new
record high of US$5 billion (Dh18 bn).
There will be more demand for Digital
Transformation initiatives than ever before
in 2019 because CEOs are finally realising
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