TRENDING
Transformation journey in fundamental
areas. Limited budget, employee pushback
and lack of expertise are all among the top
five challenges to Digital Transformation.
The ability to fund transformational
projects is one of the most pressing
concerns for CIOs. Many organisations
lack budget for transformational projects
because a large amount is allocated to
existing technologies.
“Long-term commitments with proprietary
vendors lead to spiralling costs with only
incremental gains in capacity. What’s worse,
money spent on these long-term contracts
only deepens dependence on a single
vendor,” said James Labocki, director of
Product Management, Red Hat.
“Proprietary solutions are limiting potential
in the IT department, the company balance
sheet and even individual careers. Limited
potential means limited ability to innovate
and compete.
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“Organisations need to analyse their current
IT infrastructure spend to find areas that
can be treated as a commodity. One area
includes commoditising virtual infrastructure.
The current scale-up virtualisation solutions
provided by vendors are costly and provide
no path for customers that wish to explore
future hybrid cloud strategies.”
Red Hat has just announced a new offering,
Red Hat infrastructure Migration Solution to
help organisations combat this. Here we ask
Labocki questions about the product.
When we talk about migration,
many professional organisations
are in difficulty. What are the
typical customer requests? What
are the main advantages of the Red
Hat solution?
Often, customers are struggling in two areas.
Firstly, they are struggling to deliver new
services to market faster because their current
IT – including application architectures, the
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CIOS WHO WANT
TO IMPROVE THEIR
ORGANISATION’S
BOTTOM LINE
HAVE TO MAKE
IMPORTANT
DECISIONS AND
MAKE DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
A REALITY.
platforms they run on and their processes and
culture – slows them down.
Secondly, they are having difficulty in
changing their current IT because it
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