| | March 20198CIOReviewhe data centre is in a period of rapid IT transformation as businesses are increasingly seeking competitive advantages in this digital era. At the center of these IT transformations lie converged infrastructure (CI), hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and "software-defined" environments to help achieve digital business goals of faster time to market and improved customer engagement.In fact, according to 451 Research, HCI is currently in use at 40 percent of organizations, and analysts expect that number to rise substantially over the next two years. As this huge shift to new IT models continues, there's another shift at play: The fundamental IT skills most in demand are changing.The Unique OpportunityCI and HCI platforms provide a unique opportunity to re-evaluate and change IT management. These platforms can be catalysts for IT transformation, helping the businesses that adopt them remain competitive within their industry. However, businesses need to ensure that their IT managers are equipped with the right skill sets, which go beyond traditional requirement for maintaining only the infrastructure and doing so with component-level expertise. With CI and HCI, compute, storage and networking no longer operate in isolation from one another. Modern integrated systems unify virtual and physical IT resources, which can be managed via a single platform.Unifying virtual and physical resources reduces reliance on dedicated IT specialists in favour of IT generalists to manage the overall environment at a lower cost. However, this approach is arguably short-sighted. Savvy organizations take advantage of integrated systems to cross-pollinate expertise across IT personnel so they can deploy and manage application workloads at unprecedented levels of scale as well as allocate TIN MY OPINIONHOW NEW IT MODELS ARE CHANGING THE IT SKILLS LANDSCAPE AND INTERNAL ITBy Hemal Shah, SVP, Dell Digital & Regional CIO, Asia-pacific at Dell EMC
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