Organizations are responding to elevated customer expectations and rapid business environment changes unfolding across the globe through accelerated digital transformation in core business operations. The effective application of digital technologies such as the Industrial Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain, automation, and data analytics in diverse applications, from financial modeling to product design, are driving fundamental changes in how the business operates and delivers value to customers.

With the advent of new technologies, disruptive business models, and the explosive penetration of information technologies in all aspects of the enterprise, it is incumbent upon organizations to evaluate critical trends and benchmarks in digital transformation through the prism of global trends and choose the right technology that will allow them to remain competitive while being able to manage digital transformation outlay.

Cloud computing, with its ability to enhance the efficient implementation of IT, resources through the virtualization of heterogeneous and distributed IT architecture, offers a compelling strategy meeting the two divergent requirements of reducing costs and increasing flexibility. Cloud technology offers significant economies in the face of fluctuating compute load and storage demands, with higher responsiveness, increased fault tolerance, scalability, and reliability.

With the evolution and maturing of cloud computing paradigms, several low-cost, on-demand high performance computing configurations are available to enterprises today, from the public cloud to the on-premises edge, which moves the computer close to the real-time environment. Each of these offers unique advantages. While the public cloud is infinitely scalable, private clouds ensure greater privacy and the on-premise solutions guarantee higher speeds and lower latency.

Shorter product lifecycles and the increasing variety and complexity of production are leading organizations to implement prudent combinations of various cloud configurations to optimize costs, improve performance, and enhance the overall user experience. With a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud approach, companies can leverage the strengths of different cloud providers and services to meet specific business requirements, avoid vendor lock-in, and distributed computing and storage judiciously to ensure that each workload is running on the most appropriate platform.

Multicloud and hybrid clouds comprising the edge, the core, and the cloud provide the best of both worlds— the convenience of a pay-as-you-go model and the extreme flexibility of scale-on-demand. The most serviceable combination of cloud technologies that would keep configuration costs low and fully justify a digital rollout investment depends on the specific needs and goals of the organization. The ability to maintain control over on-premise infrastructure, while also being able to quickly scale up or down on demand has made hybrid cloud and multi-cloud the architectures of choice.

However, effective implementation of complex cloud ecosystems which ingest, integrate, and analyze disaggregated data must facilitate orchestration and interoperability between heterogeneous platforms across the entire network stack, with a robust Governance and Management System providing oversight of storage, security, and computing services. Deployment and configuration, therefore, pose significant challenges to multi-cloud acquisition and management.

The effective solution for the realization, operation, and maintenance of a future-ready digital architecture would work right out of the box and frees the user from deployment and configuration constraints. It must simplify operations and maximize resource utilization by scheduling applications, distributing workloads, and reinforcing end-to-end integration across processes and applications. Fully managed private clouds extend the flexibilities of public clouds while avoiding complex polyglot architectures and allowing deeper customization in a business climate that demands increasingly individualized products and services within short lead times to market.

The Dell Apex Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure is a fully managed Service as a Solution— a private cloud managed by Dell that aligns cost directly to usage with a pay-per-use model, thus providing the pricing flexibility of a public cloud along with the customization advantages of a private cloud, retaining agility, simplicity and cost control. It is multicolored by design, but easy to manage from a central console, giving users full Operational Control and a seamless and secure cloud experience at a low Total Cost of Ownership. As the world’s leading technology company in step with tomorrow’s needs, Dell is committed to partnering with enterprises in their ongoing transition towards Industry 4.0.

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