October 20186 Customer is King. This age-old business mantra is finding more relevance in today's world of digital disruption, where real-time response is crucial to an organization's success. As businesses are gearing up to tackle new challenges, data center ecosystem is witnessing tremendous innovation. These transformations are aimed to provide modern organizations with a dynamic infrastructure to launch new digital strategies and business initiatives. A renewed approach to developing data center architecture will have a far-reaching impact on a company's ability to remain competitive in the market. With more organizations embarking on a digital journey, the volume and velocity of data have exploded, causing congestion in information streaming to the data centers. Edge computing is empowering organizations to localize compute power and place it closer to the point of data generation. It can be said that new age implementations such as edge computing and SD-WAN will make a difference in the way data centers are deployed. On the storage front, rows of spinning disk are being supplanted with all-flash solutions. It is predicted that by 2021, 50 percent of data centers will use Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) for high-performance computing and big data workloads--up from less than 10 percent today. Similar to all-flash solutions, converged and hyper-converged infrastructures are drastically simplifying data center design, allowing businesses to implement agile processes. As enterprises look to deliver world-class solutions and services to their customers, data center solution providers are backing them up by streamlining their technology infrastructure. In this edition of APAC CIO Outlook, we are featuring a list of leading players in the data center arena who are helping companies to stay agile, nimble, and efficient. Let us know your thoughts. Annie JohnsonManaging Editoreditor@apacciooutlook.comAnnie Johnson To subscribe to APACCIOOutlookVisit www.apacciooutlook.comArt & GraphicsAmelia StewartFlynn SmythToby LangtonGokul K GSenior WritersManaging EditorAnnie JohnsonCopyright © 2018 ValleyMedia Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.OCTOBER - 06 - 2018, Volume 04 SE 32 Published by ValleyMedia Inc.EditorialPowering Business through Agile ITLane Adams Clara MathewRoyce D'SouzaAkanksha MinzEditorialAlfred MardinLouis BeckerRachael ClarkRoy ChowTrishna Das *Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffEmailsales@apacciooutlook.comeditor@apacciooutlook.commarketing@apacciooutlook.comContact usPhone: 1 510.996.5168Fax: 510-894-8405
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