Organisations are harnessing the power of four disruptive technologies - cloud, social, mobile and big data - to redefine the industry with software and new applications.
So said David Goulden, CEO, EMC Information Infrastructure, while addressing the EMC Redefine Possible event in London yesterday.
According to Goulden, the recipe for that IT transformation has traditionally been reducing investments in existing applications and investing in new ones. However, he noted that there are some challenges with this approach.
"The first challenge is that the number of existing workloads continues to grow and so does the information created by them. So reducing costs when your environment is growing is a challenge," he said.
He also pointed out that the second challenge is infrastructure application tax - the tax to support these existing workloads.
"For every dollar spent on infrastructure for business applications, 58 cents is spent to support data centre infrastructure - spending on things like backup replication, management tools and the sprawl of these applications is another challenge.
The next challenge, said Goulden, is that many of these existing apps now need more power. "Things like VDI - they want more performance, which requires investment in new infrastructure.
"Then we move to the concept of new applications. The new applications often have thousands of users and each user requires thousands of times more data and this has a profound impact on the way that applications are designed as well as the infrastructure needed to support them," he said.
He added that it will be inefficient to create another silo for these new applications.
"We believe that these challenges can be solved with information storage technology," said Goulden.
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