Emma Okonji
Dell EMC has championed a discourse on the importance of next generation datacenter at IDC Roadshow 2017 event. The event, which was held in Lagos, had over 80 participants ranging from Information Technology (IT) Directors and Managers, Storage Managers, DR and BC Managers, and Technical Managers in attendance.
The enterprise infrastructure market in the Middle East and Africa is gradually maturing into more efficient, consolidated, manageable and cloud enabled infrastructures. Digital transformation initiatives across enterprises in the region along with the adoption of third platform technologies like Cloud, Mobility, Social Business and Big Data/Analytics, is reshaping the datacenter and creating a necessity for organisations to reassess their datacenter architecture.
Datacenter continues to evolve with the business demands & technology enhancements. IDC’s assessment of key datacenter technology markets shows a shifting trend within these technologies along with a move to newer consolidated systems. Ultimately, for cloud to become a reality, datacenters have to evolve and become more agile, enabling architectures.
While delivering a presentation titled, ‘Modernise Automate Transform’, Senior Architect at Dell EMC West Africa, Ehidiamen Obodeh, noted that technology is advancing at an exponential rate and changing how we work and live and it is the engine of human progress. The new digital era is really a fourth industrial revolution, creating a world where everything is connected – a source of greater data and insight.
Big data is disrupting and transforming the entire business and 21st century and businesses cannot afford to be left behind. “In order to transform and succeed as a digital business, an organisation must modernise, automate, and transform their IT infrastructure. Dell EMC is helping organisations to simplify their IT, solve business challenges as well as gain the agility and scalability to support their organisation’s long-term strategy through its future-ready, standard-based data center solutions,†Obodeh said.
