“GIVEN THE
UNPARALLELED
GROW TH OF DATA
THESE DAYS, DATA
CENTER SCALE AND
FLE XIBILIT Y ARE
CRITICAL TO
FINDING BUSINESS
SUCCESS. WE’RE
REALLY CHARGING
INTO A FIF TH
INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
POWERED BY
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY.”
ALLEN CLINGERMAN
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIST,
POWEREDGE+WORKLOADS,
NA CHANNELS, FOR DELL
TECHNOLOGIES AT CDWtechnology resources to the brink. To success-
fully meet these challenges, companies have
to make fundamental changes to data center
operations. Getting a better handle on storage
assets is the first step in this process. Tools
like Dell and CDW’s CloudIQ help by continually
assessing storage performance and providing
advanced feedback from a single dashboard.
Its predictive analytics help reduce risk by pin-
pointing potential performance concerns and
system deviations, allowing organizations to
speed up troubleshooting and issue resolution.
“Given the unparalleled growth of data these
days, data center scale and flexibility are critical
to finding business success,” Clingerman says.
“ We’re really charging into a fifth industrial
revolution powered by IT.”
For one leading global scientific research
institute, this meant switching to Dell Power-
Store scalable all-flash storage solutions, to
effectively handle the enormity of its computing
tasks while maintaining the ability to store vast
amounts of data in a smaller physical/digital
footprint. For a leader in the medical analytics
space, it meant switching to similar solutions
to help hospital systems more flexibly scale up
their remote data-monitoring efforts. Doing so
helped its clients to more readily free up beds
amid the pandemic and provide patients with
quality care from any location. And those are
just a couple of examples that point to how this
game-changing technology will transform the
business world.
Data center infrastructure spending is now
set to grow 6% to more than $200 billion in
2021, according to research analysts at Gart-
ner, as enterprises increasingly look to consoli-
date their IT operations. Likewise, corporateinvestments are only expected to rise in the
months ahead as more firms turn to these
high-tech command centers and online tech-
nologies as a means of kick-starting growth
and innovation. Unsurprisingly, the number of
servers being deployed at edge locations is also
anticipated to double within the next four years,
per findings from technology research and
consulting firm Omdia.
All of these shifts only serve to underscore
the growing premium that enterprises are plac-
ing on cloud technology and storage solutions.
In addition, they indicate the growing role that
connected storage and technology tools will
play as building blocks for the future’s most
promising business advancements.
Already, the world’s most successful compa-
nies are reimagining the shape of data centers,
as well as the role that they will play in helping
executive teams support digital transforma-
tions and build more resilient businesses. That
means having to rethink how these facilities
are designed, to allow them to support rapidly
compounding workloads and new technologies
that reside along a spectrum of core, cloud, and
edge capabilities.
“ Tomorrow’s data center will look and
operate differently than those we see today,
with more devices operating at the far edge
of computing, and core data center equip-
ment seamlessly integrating with public cloud
resources,” explains Clingerman. “ There’s also
been a shift to organizations asking for ‘as a
service’ models. It’s never been more critical to
provide simplicity, agility, and full control over IT
usage, costs, and security for companies look-
ing for the capability to react and scale to meet
any business challenge.” ■CONTENT FROM CDW