Collaboration essential at every level of organisation

The pandemic forced IT to deliver services outside of the traditional way. It has contributed to expediting cloud adoption but at the same time raised concerns about security in the enterprises with ransomware attacks increasing across the globe.

Regional IT and technology decision makers around the world operate their businesses in hybrid cloud environments in order to meet growing business demands for faster innovation, while optimising operations and lowering infrastructure costs.

They will need the flexibility and agility of a hybrid cloud architecture to manage massive amounts of data being generated daily and use it effectively to accelerate time to insights and better inform decision making.

Protecting valuable information is key in this environment and therefore should strengthen their security posture by establishing a secure foundation across the organization, hybrid cloud.

This is a time of both significant disruption and opportunity for IT organisations. IT technology decision makers are in a position to play a strategic role in advancing their businesses through innovation and adoption of digital technologies.

Partnership is key to success here. Collaboration is essential at every level of the organisation, from the C-suite across to the business units and deep into the datacentre, application, cloud and operation teams. This collaborative effort inside the organisation will help determine how IT can best support their business.

They would have to sit together and map out strategies that look at both the benefits and the risks. They need to acknowledge the things that they have to overcome, simplify their operational guidelines, processes, and architectures, and get that delta between how they run it before and how they want to run more effectively in the future.

While technology keeps evolving at rapid pace, there will be a skills shortage in the market for new technologies like AI, ML Security and Cloud. This is going to be a good career progression opportunity for IT professional to transform their career.

In the meantime, there will be a gap. And therefore, organisations should have a plan and strategy on how to fill this gap by running specialised training to address the pace of change, innovation and adoption of digital technologies in the region.

In my opinion, one of the most important give backs to the community that the industry and vendors can do is to work with local governments and educational institutes to fill the demand for properly trained IT professionals in early stages.

This can be achieved by introducing AI, analytics, cloud education as part of universities and colleges curriculum. This type of education can evolve to provide the next generation of professionals with the skills they need to support digital transformation and business growth.

Principal challenges for decision makers

• Regional IT decision makers are overwhelmed by the rate of change and trying to align themselves to understand that this pace of change is actually the new normal.
• Regional IT and technology decision makers will have to deal with exponential growth and movement of data across hybrid cloud.
• Data is expected to significantly grow with AI, ML, big data, analytics, video surveillance driving this growth.
• IT decision makers would need the right strategy to incorporate and manage data in a complex, hybrid world.
• NetApp data fabric solutions will help enable regional technology decision makers to synchronise and secure their data between clouds and on-premises solutions.

Key Takeaways

• Protecting valuable information is key in this environment and therefore strengthen security posture by establishing a secure foundation across hybrid cloud.
• This is a time of both significant disruption and opportunity for IT organisations.
• IT technology decision makers are in a position to play a strategic role in advancing their businesses through innovation.
• Partnership is key to success here.
• Collaboration is essential at every level of the organisation, from the C-suite across to the business units and deep into datacentre, application, cloud teams.
• This collaborative effort inside the organisation will help determine how IT can best support their business.
• They would have to sit together and map out strategies that look at both the benefits and the risks.
• Need to acknowledge things they have to overcome, simplify operational guidelines, processes, architectures.
• Get the delta between how they run it before and how they want to run more effectively in the future.

This collaborative effort inside the organisation, from C-suite to business units and into applications, will determine how IT can best support their business.