In 2003 Nicolas Carr wrote a provocative article in Harvard Business Review entitled “IT Doesn’t Matter,” followed by additional articles and his 2008 book “The Big Switch,” which chronicled the growth of utility computing. Today, the reality of utility and cloud computing is everywhere. If you are operating a corporate data center, it must be able to demonstrate reliability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness that can compete with the giant public clouds offering infrastructure-as-a-service and a rich pallet of applications, including databases, AI and machine learning to name a few.
Public clouds are not without challenges, but for today's corporate data centers to survive, they must be ready to offer strategic benefits to the organizations that invest in them. In this presentation, we will discuss how Scality’s storage solution can provide a key component of future-proof data center strategy.