Powering Digital with Hybrid IT

The message is clear – go digital or perish. To make this transformation smooth, the CIOs need an expert partner to walk them through IT pain points and enable a modern IT infrastructure

The transformation is evident from the early 2000 and today CIOs are no longer relegated to the sidelines—rather they have taken the center stage….but for how long? If the CIO is not progressive enough to induct newer tech and align IT for business to accrue more value, then, the very purpose of IT enabling better business outcomes stands defeated. In a book in early 2010, titled the “The Real Value of IT” by Richard Hunter and George Westerman, they aptly said, “The cost of IT is not the value of IT. It’s time to start communicating in clear, measurable terms non-technical managers can understand how IT improves business performance.

The panacea the authors advocated: “The escape from IT’s value quandary begins with something as simple and profound as a change of paradigm for the IT organization. We can sum up this paradigm change as rule number 1: it’s not about IT. It’s all about business outcomes and business performance, whether you’re communicating IT’s internal performance or IT impacts on business operations and financials.”

What experts call as a digital-led business transformation is not an easy task. To enable digital transformation enterprise need a proactive expert solution providers like Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and System Integrators like ThoughtSol comes into play. THE ROAD TO DIGITAL VIA HYBRID IT Hybrid IT is now the new normal, not everything is going to the public cloud, and innovation is needed for the data center to level the playing field with the public cloud in terms of cost, speed, simplicity, and end user experience.

Reflecting on this Rajesh Dhar, Senior Director, Hybrid IT, HPE India says, “In Hybrid IT, HPE started with an industry leading base of innovations and our portfolio has never been stronger. For instance, HPE is uniquely positioned to address the various challenges of Hybrid IT whether its All-flash, HCI or Composable”

“For instance in All-flash, clients can unlock the full potential of their data with intelligent storage built for hybrid cloud world. One can move data where it needs to be – at the edge, in the cloud, or on-premises. Moreover, AI can be leveraged to achieve autonomous IT and intelligent data management. Similarly, in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), one needs an enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform that speeds application performance, improves efficiency and resiliency, and backs up/restores VMs in seconds. Here HPE has a clear lead with its SimpliVity platform, that combines IT infrastructure and advanced data services into a single, integrated all-flash solution at a fraction of the cost of traditional offerings. Moreover, one can gain VM management and mobility, built-in backup and DR and game-changing data efficiency in this award-winning hyper-converged solution.”

Meanwhile, on the composable infrastructure side, HPE is considered as a pioneer and has a clear lead compared to the competition and clearly have the early mover advantage in this space. “HPE’s approach to creating the composable infrastructure category was first to create the Unified API, followed by the composable infrastructure partner ecosystem and finally, the composable infrastructure platform, HPE Synergy,” quips Rajesh Dhar.

Looking at the Hybrid IT solutions, HPE’s offerings cut across a gamut, making for a well-meshed ecosystem aimed at IT modernization and hasten enterprises to transition to digital. “Digital transformation is driving an incredible pace of change for our industry and our customers’ needs are evolving just as quickly. With our Hybrid IT strategy and portfolio of innovations, partners, expertise and ‘as a service; delivery models we can help our customers: Optimize their current app and data environment, accelerate the transformation to IT-as-a-Service models both on-prem and across a hybrid environment, help build next-generation data and analytics platforms and enable more flexible consumption and delivery models,” adds Rajesh Dhar.

Moreover, to reap the benefits of Hybrid IT, an ‘Intelligent Edge’ is a critical element. HPE sources say that this is where the next revolution in innovation will happen