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IT organizations are increasingly subjected to escalating demands to deliver agile, transformative, scalable, and secure applications and services to meet the needs of a progressively global and adaptive business landscape. This change had its roots in the previous decade and resulted in the mass acceptance of Converged Infrastructure (CI) technology as a mechanism to scale the Data Center. The Dell EMC VxBlock platform is a leading systems provider within the CI market.
The IT landscape is undergoing a significant shift in terms of how applications and services are being defined, developed, and brought to market. In the digital transformation era, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to drive competitive advantage by adopting agile and cloud-centric application development methodologies. Speed to market, agility, and constant innovation are dominant and recurring themes. This shifting landscape is characterized by the following:
Organizations face the two-fold challenge of how to manage the different processes underpinning traditional applications while also developing co-existing processes and procedures to cater to the vastly differing needs of the modern application. Aside from the obvious benefits from a TCO perspective of a singular overarching network and security system to manage this type of environment, organizations are mandated to do so, in order to adhere to and comply with business and regulatory driven compliance, security, risk, and financial goals. This represents the key challenge: How can this be achieved?