This shift toward data-driven business is vastly increasing the amount of information we generate, capture, and analyze. As we move to supporting enhanced customer engagements, introducing new levels of quality and scale with manufacturing process automation, optimizing networks for digital content delivery and hybrid collaboration, digitizing our asset base for enhanced control and operational resilience, or revolutionizing stock control and inventory management, the center of gravity of data is changing from our core datacenters toward a highly distributed and disaggregated network of edge infrastructure.
As edge becomes ever more critical to digital business models and processes, it's vital to get the fundamentals right. A highly dispersed and diverse set of equipment and software to deploy and maintain requires a different approach to that of consolidated and standardized datacenter infrastructure. With such a distributed set of infrastructure and applications, automated setup and configuration is key to successfully scaling edge solutions. But IDC's research shows that only a quarter of companies have extensively embraced automation, and even fewer AIOps, leaving a huge gap in capabilities for three-quarters of European organizations.
Many companies are trying to solve this in-house by building a bespoke automation platform. But this is time, investment, and skills intensive — which is precisely why only the top quarter of the most digitally transformed companies have extensive automation capabilities. There is an alternative approach that is faster, cheaper, and more effective, however — partnering with a technology leader with a proven full-stack automation platform that can deliver the scalability, agility, resilience, and security your business needs to thrive in this increasingly edge-centric world.
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