If data is the new gold, then computing power is the plant that refines it and puts the insights it yields into action. Corporate IT is faced with the challenge not only of providing the computing power to store and analyse this growing torrent of data, but also of scaling processing capacity up and down in response to market shifts.

“Providing the infrastructure for a rapidly changing environment is a huge challenge for traditional datacentres. Hyperscale datacentres such as those operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure emerged in response to this challenge,” says Richard Vester, executive director: Cloud & International, iOCO. “Organisations must become proficient in leveraging this new computing model or risk getting left behind.”