In fact, most forward-thinking companies are looking to leverage the benefits of datacentre automation, as it’s anticipated that this will improve operational efficiency as well as reduce the workload on datacentre managers and staff.

This is the same reason hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is gaining traction, according to Paul Ruinaard, country manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at Nutanix. He says that HCI has collapsed the discrete silos found in datacentres into a single front-end that is much simpler to patch, automate and run, thus significantly reducing the complexity of the datacentre.