Data is the fuel for today’s modern economy – it drives everything from large-scale manufacturing, financial services, energy and transportation to healthcare, media and entertainment and everything in between. This new philosophy of data-centricity has evolved the way organizations think about their IT environments, infrastructure, applications, solutions and even cloud providers. As a result, the demands and expected outcomes of IT have evolved beyond just achieving technology-centric goals such as storage efficiency, cost and performance, to also include business-oriented outcomes derived from data intelligence such as streamlined and faster business operation, sales, productivity, and time to market.
