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Dell EMC has championed discourse on the importance of next generation data center at the recent IDC Roadshow 2017 event in Lagos.
The event saw experts offering advice on establishing seamlessly secure enterprise that utilize cutting-edge security roadmaps as the foundation for delivering true digital transformation in the country.
IDC on its website, noted that across the West African region (including Nigeria), organizations now have to operate under extremely challenging conditions, characterized by low oil prices, currency fluctuations, and a delicate political ecosystem. This has led to a prioritization of projects, with organizations realizing that they must now innovate and provide a superior user experience if they are to succeed in the face of aggressive competition. As such, there has been a considerable increase in the number of organizations exploring, planning, and engaging in digital transformation.
Ehidiamen Obodeh, Senior Architect at Dell EMC West Africa, in a presentation titled ‘Modernize Automate Transform’, 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 businesses and those seeking to excel in the 21st century business environment cannot afford to be left behind.
“In order to transform and succeed as a digital business, an organization must modernize, automate, and transform their IT infrastructure.
“Dell EMC is helping organizations to simplify their IT, solve business challenges as well as gain the agility and scalability to support their organization’s long-term strategy through its future-ready, standard-based data center solutions,” Obodeh said.
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, are reshaping the data center and creating a necessity for organizations to reassess their data center architecture.
Data center continues to evolve with the business demands & technology enhancements. IDC’s assessment of key data center technology markets shows a shifting trend within these technologies along with a move to newer consolidated systems. Ultimately, for cloud to become a reality, data centers have to evolve and become more agile, enabling architectures.
As IDC also asserts; if the drive for digital transformation is to bear fruit, the implementation of best-practice security measures is an absolute must. Indeed, as organizations across West Africa increasingly embrace connectivity, a new series of security vulnerabilities, challenges, and regulations are beginning to reveal themselves. And this increasingly complex threat landscape is piling yet more pressure onto IT decision makers to re-evaluate their security strategies, develop dynamic policies, and create new synergies capable of enabling a secure, resilient, and compliant ecosystem.
