July 20168 IN MY VIEW A recent report by Industry Analysts IDC, predicts that Asia-Pacific x-Commerce ­ an all-encompassing term that highlights new business models and customer engagements, will rise from nearly US$7 trillion in 2015 to nearly US$17 trillion in 2019.Asia-Pacific will see the circulation of 3 billion smartphones, with a mobile penetration rate of 112% by 2020. By the same year, IDC also predicts that the Asia-Pacific market for Internet of Things (IoT) will reach $583 billion. Each of these factors will lead to even higher levels of data creation that will far surpass what we currently consider gargantuan.The question is: Is Asia ready to reap the benefits of the digital economy?Bridging the Technology GapAcross Asia, governments are rap-idly realizing the need to accelerate innovation and leverage technology to solve economic challenges. Sin-gapore is intensifying efforts to be the world's first Smart Nation. Ma-laysia is well on track to reach the goals of Digital Malaysia 2020vi-sion. From Philippines to Thailand to Indonesia, digital transformation is set to make its mark both in the public and private sectors.The desire to succeed has set great expectations in Asia. How-ever in order to achieve ambitious goals, gaps must be bridged on the technology front and nowhere is this more important than in the Da-tacentre. With increasing numbers of customers and IT users, com-plexity within IT departments has skyrocketed. This has resulted in CIOs attempting to resolve increas-ing complexity, budget pressures, skills shortages and staff retention by asking the ultimate question: `Should I build or buy?'Enter the converged infrastruc-ture - an approach to Data centre architecture that seeks to minimize the complexity needed to manage today's workload and processing demands without the expense that Empowering the Digital Transformation of Asia's Growth EnginesBy Matt Oostveen, Chief Technology Officer - Asia Pacific & Japan, Converged PlatformsVCE, the converged platforms division of EMC, specializes in providing converged infrastructure and converged solutions. Headquartered in USA, VCE's solutions are available worldwide through an extensive partner network of around 200 and an employee workforce of more than 2,000 globally.
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