FOUR WAYS CIOS CAN JUMP START THE DIGITALISATION JOURNEY
Take a new approach to branch office IT
On average , 50 percent of an organisation ’ s employees work out of branch offices – which is also where much of a company ’ s valuable information is stored to provide local access . Nonetheless , many CIOs focus their data protection strategies solely on data centres , ignoring branch locations . Without qualified IT staff on site to manage servers , storage and backup at the branch , it can take days , weeks or even months to provision new services , resolve application performance issues and recover from outages , directly impacting business productivity
2 and ultimately business results . Instead , CIOs can turn to hyperconverged branch IT , where branch data is stored and managed in the data centre and users access it through applications running locally in the branch . This approach allows branches to consolidate servers , storage and network infrastructure into a single appliance , greatly simplifying the maintenance and delivery of critical resources . More importantly , it maintains application performance levels , so user experience is not compromised , and enables CIOs to cut costs , consolidate operations , and boost security .
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