SPONSORED: With all the talk of ‘digital transformation’, says Dell EMC’s enterprise director for SSA, Bradley Pulford, something that should not be forgotten is that a critical part of this – particularly from the enterprise point of view – is ‘IT transformation’. This, he adds, involves modernising their datacentre infrastructure, automating their IT processes and transforming their organisation and operating model.

“An enterprise’s legacy datacentre is, in effect, physical infrastructure, namely servers, storage and a network. This hardware ultimately serves as the compute engine that drives the rest of the organisation. However, it also increases complexity, leading to higher costs, makes service delivery more difficult and the kind of IP required to manage and maintain it is onerous and archaic,” he says.

“Today, although the essence of the datacentre hasn’t changed, what has changed is the cost-efficiency, performance and ease of management that modern, software-defined datacentres offer. Therefore, enterprises that wish to obtain these benefits need to look at how they modernise their legacy environment. This can be achieved through hyper-converged solutions that are agile and that scale easily, reducing cost and improving the ease of implementation.”