Data is causing IT vendors to re-invent themselves
 
Data is truly at the heart of business and hence IT like is has never been before.
The impact of this can be seen in how the traditional IT vendors are not just changing they are revolutionizing.
 
IBM has sold off its entire Intel product range and is changing the workforce as it moves along its journey to compete headon in the cloud and big data areans with new competitors that didn’t exist at the time IBM was creating the personal computer market.
 
Today in Singapore Dell are running one of their series of  “connected enterprise” events where to the best of our knowledge hardware and product are not mentioned at all. The subjects up for discussion cover Future Ready Data Center, Big Data, and Enterprise Ready Cloud.”
 
The issue is Data is now at the heart of IT and business and as such everything needs to mobilise around making your data available. People and users are becoming demanding in saying I need access to my data in many formats from any location from any device.
 
The other dynamic that has changes is where the data is coming from, users still create data, but so does the “internet of things” and in addition Big Data, or unstructured data from numerous sources outside of corporate IT needs to be consolidated, stored analysed and made available.
 
This creates new Challenges. Speaking to Harmeet Molhotra (head of the Storage Team for Dell in South Asia) he goes to pains to point out that Storage managing data is becoming the single biggest challenge for IT as Big Data explodes.
 
The companies we know that built our datacenters with Computing, Networking and Storage Technologies are becoming different beasts. They are equipping themselves to become the providers of skills and services and products for a future built on Software Defined infrastructures and Hybrid Cloud across ALL IT departments.