Johannesburg, 18 Oct 2017
Modern businesses are increasingly embracing digital transformation - leveraging new technologies to reinvent core processes, business models, product offerings, and the customer experience. As businesses embark on the digital transformation journey, they need to modernise their underlying technology infrastructure to enable a more agile, customer-focused, flexible, and innovative digital workplace to drive greater human and operational efficiencies.
Digital transformation initiatives require a modern IT infrastructure to support modern business requirements. Legacy siloed infrastructure prevents organisations from using their data holistically; performance bottlenecks negatively impact user experience, and rigid and/or proprietary architectures limit options when business requirements evolve. The unfortunate result is that IT is increasingly seen as a barrier to the business, rather than an enabler of new business opportunities - and is thus becoming largely irrelevant.
Many modern organisations have fully embraced cloud strategies - with many going so far as to implement a "cloud first" or "cloud only" policy. But the reality is that most organisations will require a hybrid approach for the foreseeable future, consisting of on-premises and public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. To effectively integrate these diverse operating environments, legacy on-premises infrastructure (and architecture) must be modern and agile to support the business with the same speed and agility as in the public cloud.
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