“With the explosion of devices and consumer apps that people use in their daily private lives, people now have heightened expectations that corporate IT departments should be able to deliver similarly rich applications for their business requirements,” said Cashman.
Logicalis has worked with many CIOs who report they are under pressure to build flexibility and scalability into their application stack and underlying infrastructure. Cloud technologies and more specifically Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies, both private and public, have had a significant impact on its customer base.
Driving adaptability
“We have built private cloud infrastructure for customers that has provided the foundation for the rollout of successful business applications and that private cloud infrastructure has been a driver of adaptability and innovation within customer organisations. For example, we provisioned a private cloud infrastructure with one of our hospital customers which allows them to rapidly respond to emerging healthcare application requirements across the hospital and provision new environments and applications on demand.”
Organisations are looking at the data they have on their customers and products and realising that with the right data analytics, business intelligence and visualisation tools, they can understand more about the things that matter to them, Dave Clarke, Asystec
According to Cashman, his firm has also seen an increase in smaller customer migrating point applications to the cloud.
“Many smaller businesses do not have the hang-ups about using cloud-based applications or infrastructure that some of our bigger customers have. We have traditionally provided support for on-premise email environments but many customers now have migrated email and collaboration offsite to reduce the cost of maintaining an on-premise infrastructure,” he said.
“Our view is that over time, the most successful businesses will use a combination of on-premise, private digital applications and infrastructure, integrated with off-premise cloud based solutions that will allow them to launch new services and offerings to their customers.”
Logicalis believes that companies able to successfully combine core business applications and datasets with emerging off-premise applications will be the ones most responsive to changing consumer needs and ultimately the ones that will succeed in the future.
Data-centric world
This is a perspective shared by many others in the services industry, including Dave Clarke, chief data scientist for Asystec Data Management Solutions. He suggests that drawing distinctions between a company’s data and its business activities makes less sense as the world becomes more digital in organisation.
“Digital information is growing at an exponential rate and the predominance of machine to machine communication and the Internet of Things, as well as just the amount of digital information we’re all generating, all points to an increasingly data-centric world,” he said.
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