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Robert Linsdell, Managing Director ANZ
T IoT and expansion at the edge of the network are changing how businesses manage their data. Edge data centres mean data can be managed where it’s created, and they’re helping organisations change and improve the way they work.
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he data centre, the IT lifeline of any organisation, has seen huge transformation in recent years. Still relatively new platforms such as public and private cloud — or hybrid combinations of both — are replacing the traditional data centre model. The promise that comes with these new platforms is that they’ll free up IT departments to focus on the business at hand rather than putting out fires or staying behind until 3 am on a Saturday morning completing upgrades. This is great not just for the IT department, but also for the business as it looks to IT to enable and improve daily processes, not to mention prepare it for new innovations and technologies such as wearable devices and BYOD.
Moving out to the edge These trends and the wider Internet of Things-driven era are propelling another major transformation away from the data centre at the edge of the network. More and more data is coming through the edge and this is changing the way businesses think about how they manage data across the organisation.
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