The repositioned services offering will be tentatively represented as outlined below.
Innovation in IT infrastructure is shaping how people and organizations work. According to McKinsey, IT infrastructure leaders believe that constant innovation represents their best opportunity to meet user expectations and business demands within budgetary constraints. Innovation has become a critical part of the mandate for enterprise infrastructure functions.
IT infrastructure innovation is increasingly essential for meeting business expectations, but selecting the right technology is only part of the challenge. Integrating technologies into scalable services that meet business-user needs and building efficient provisioning and support processes are equally important in capturing long-term value from innovation.
This evolution in service integration is visible across cloud computing, data analytics, desktop virtualization, enterprise mobility, and several other domains. The increasing adoption of “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) strategies has rapidly gained traction among enterprises worldwide because it aligns organizational goals with employee convenience.
Enterprise buyers increasingly prefer consumption-based pricing models—a trend that began with software and has now expanded into hardware. According to Synergy Research Group, this shift from capital expenditure to operational expenditure reduces risk, frees up capital, and offers greater flexibility.
Between 2015 and 2016, revenues for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) grew by 53%, making them among the fastest-growing segments in cloud and infrastructure services.
Technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, and virtualization is no exception. Organizations are moving rapidly from traditional infrastructure models toward Virtualization 2.0, 3.0, and beyond. Not long ago, businesses were running applications directly on physical servers, whereas today virtualization and cloud-based ecosystems dominate enterprise technology strategies.
Perspective – How Can Brands Leverage Technology?
Evolving technology is compelling organizations to manage business continuity on demand. According to Citrix and other industry experts, the following trends are likely to shape the future of virtualization and enterprise infrastructure:
1. Desktop, application, network, storage, and data virtualization will continue to rise rapidly.
2. Cybersecurity and infrastructure security will become increasingly complex and critical.
3. Everything is moving to the cloud, and virtualization is no exception. According to the 2020 State of Virtualization Technology report, nearly 45% of organizations are actively assessing or planning to move their server virtualization environments to the cloud.
4. Cloud and hybrid cloud ecosystems are streamlining work environments, improving collaboration, and enhancing security across organizations.
5. More than half of organizations are expected to adopt storage virtualization and application virtualization solutions in the near future.
In a constantly evolving technology landscape, the only way a brand can remain relevant is by staying ahead of the curve. Organizations that begin building future-ready virtualization strategies today will establish themselves as thought leaders tomorrow.
