Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 02 | Page 17

TRENDING AS THE MODERN DATA CENTRE TYPICALLY LEVERAGES CORE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDING VIRTUALISATION, STORAGE AND CLOUD, THE NEXT CRUCIAL CONSIDERATION WOULD BE ENSURING THE AVAILABILITY OF THESE MODERN DATA CENTRES TO ENSURE ALWAYS-ON SERVICES www.intelligentcio.com main driver of cloud’s evolution. Along with the pervasiveness of mobile devices comes the question of how to manage that data profile, and provide data availability. To begin with, mobile’s data growth is explosive. How do we decide on what is valuable information, and what is noise? Should we keep everything? Should we categorise everything? Everything that your mobile device sends to the service provider – do they keep that forever? Do they need to? If yes, is it because of regulations, or because of compliance? The fact is that organisations are having to make those decisions now because the volume o