DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
enrich employee and customer experiences . From our customer interactions , we are beginning to see a transformation where the majority of this data will be generated outside of the data centre or cloud .
• Continued innovations will take place in the areas of automation and AIOps and this will help organisations refocus IT staff for higher level tasks instead of spending vast amounts of time detecting , diagnosing and fixing issues that have the potential to negatively impact the network and the business operations that depend on it . Being able to resolve issues more quickly – or to anticipate them and prevent them from occurring – will support enhanced user and customer experiences .
• Network teams will lead the charge for eliminating the siloes separating the server , storage , virtualisation , DevOps , SecOps and AIOps functions . Removing these barriers will allow organisations to
THE PANDEMIC HAS ALSO FORCED IT FURTHER INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AS CEOS HAVE COME TO RECOGNISE ITS IMPORTANCE TO HELP WEATHER THOSE CHALLENGES .
realise tight collaboration that will accelerate the achievement of their business objectives and overcome the unprecedented economic and resource headwinds caused by the global pandemic .
While 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenges on many levels , the innovations that we have seen in networking technology over the last 12 months have provided us with some relief and some new ways of coping .
The pandemic has also forced IT further into the spotlight as CEOs have come to recognise its importance to help weather those challenges and even provide competitive advantages . Those advantages may extend from workforce enablement , creating a happier and more productive workforce , to powering new business initiatives and products .
As we navigate through a new year , we ’ ll continue to build upon these innovations and find new ways to leverage the many capabilities and benefits of the Intelligent Edge to face and overcome whatever new challenges may lie ahead . ◊
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