Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 46 | Page 19

LATEST INTELLIGENCE experience from many customers across a range of industries. Below is an example of what HPE delivered to one customer. Challenges Enterprises going through digital transformation face significant problems of simultaneously managing storage for traditional predictable applications while enabling storage for rapid application development to support innovation and experimentation. Balancing these demands with legacy storage platforms is not possible. Some of the key customer challenges that HPE has observed include: • Poor application performance from legacy systems. With so much data to process and analyze, organizations are experiencing bottlenecks that are hindering innovative use of data. Legacy storage infrastructure cannot keep up with evolving demands. Application processing is affected, and the lack of data availability has negative impacts on business operations. The rollout of new applications is often blocked because the storage infrastructure cannot deliver the needed performance. • Insufficient storage capabilities to handle today’s data explosion. Digital and social media include text, pictures, videos, and other media types that are not easily indexed. Adding to this complexity is the data generated by “things” at the man/machine edge. Designing an infrastructure that can support these media types is critical to leveraging this data. It must be accessible and stored in a way that is cost effective. Organizations need methods to turn this data into information that can change how they do business. n Download whitepapers free from www.intelligentcio.com/me/whitepapers/ www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 19