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Dell Technologies drives adoption of Software Defined Data Center technologies and hybrid cloud in Luxembourg
Business leaders around the world are embracing a hybrid cloud strategy. Digital transformation has clearly accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic and organizations understand that hybrid is the right model for building a future-proof IT infrastructure. It offers them the best of public and private cloud, including edge technologies with greater choice and flexibility. In Luxembourg, Dell Technologies has been leading the way, resulting in a massive adoption of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies to drive Data Center modernization and hybrid cloud embracement.
Article by Pierre Henin, Director Enterprise Dell
Technologies Luxembourg
Even before the onset of this global health crisis, cloud
adoption was seen as a potential path to progress and evolve. To stay relevant,
companies must find new, innovative and sustainable ways to meet demand and add
value. In the past, many decisions about workload transition have been made
without a long-term plan or vision, and investments did not always result in
the best overall solutions. Numerous companies have brought their workloads
back in-house because the costs of public cloud were much higher than expected.
Strict regulations can also be an obstacle to free
externalization of data. That is why many companies in Luxembourg have first
implemented a private cloud model. By now, it has become clear that hybrid is
the future and Luxembourg businesses are clearly leading the race. Supported by
Dell Technologies, many companies in this small country are running their most
critical applications on an on-premises HCI Software Defined Data Center
platform.
Dell Technologies as a standard
A Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is the underlying
foundation of on-premises cloud technology and a solid base to develop a hybrid
cloud model. HCI is a software-defined, unified system that combines all the
components of a traditional data center: storage, compute, network and
management. As an integrated solution, HCI uses software and x86 servers to
replace expensive, purpose-built hardware. A Software Defined Data Center
(SDDC) is a data center in which infrastructure is virtualized and delivered
as-a-service.
Luxembourg companies are ahead of the rest of the world in
SDDC adoption. They have to run a ‘best of breed’ application portfolio and
look for a platform that is extremely flexible but also fully industrialized
and managed through a uniform operating model. Dell Technologies has been a
clear a leader in providing these solutions, enabling IT departments to run
traditional workloads alongside cloud-native, container-based applications with
one fully automated platform.
The latest IDC number for the HCI market in the region
indicates that Dell Technologies has around 68% share. This represents a
predominant position and makes this platform a new standard in the industry.
Dell Technologies is the only infrastructure provider who can offer such an
exhaustive integrated stack. We also deliver the necessary operational
capabilities to automatically provision, manage and monitor the stack.
Digital transformation
Cloud is an operating model, but there is often a lack of
understanding of the required steps to achieve a smooth migration and
successful transformation of the IT infrastructure. In addition, outsourcing a
service will not improve an organization’s operating maturity unless the model
has first been successfully adopted internally.
There are four key challenges an IT organization must
address to support digital transformation and its sustainability ambitions.
First, they need to improve operational efficiency in managing their data
center. Second, they must run traditional and cloud-native applications on a single
platform by creating a developer-ready Kubernetes platform. It is also
important to consolidate data centers to boost performance, reduce energy
consumption and provide significant cost savings. And finally, organizations
need to create a consistent operational model to access a full hybrid cloud
strategy.
In a few years, most traditional data centers in Luxembourg
will have disappeared to make way for a hybrid/multi-cloud approach. At Dell
Technologies, we expect that most companies will maintain a balance between
in-house and public, but we also predict to see a drastic improvement in the
operational maturity as organizations go into a more automatic management.
There will also be a clear evolution in the acquisition approach by only
investing through a real ‘utility’ financial model.
Operating in a fierce competitive environment, Luxembourg
companies have modernized their IT to survive and grow. A hybrid model gives
them the flexibility, capability and agility to scale up their success and
outpace their competitors, now and after the pandemic.