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Technology distributor Arrow Electronics has extended its distribution agreement with data storage solution provider, Infinidat to add the UK to their distribution portfolio. As Arrow’s sole distributor in the US, this strategic agreement provides Infinidat with access to Arrow’s broad network of channel contacts in the UK, which previously included several other European countries such as Germany, Iberia, Italy, as well as nations in the Nordics region.

To give customers increased reliability, agility and flexibility in managing their high-end storage infrastructure, Infinidat (www.infinidat.com), the leading provider of multi-petabyte data storage solutions announces new offerings which reduce storage infrastructure costs, mitigate the risks of technology failures and deficits, and adds an extensible NVMe over Fabrics option.

14 September 2020: By 2023, IDC predicts enterprises’ ability to rapidly develop their own digital innovations will be a core competitive requirement. This is as more than half of the worldwide economy will be digitally driven. It is true that data is the new gold but it is not enough to simply know that the gold is there. You need the ability to search for it and refine it. So, while the capability of the modern business to excel is intrinsically linked to data, cost optimised infrastructure, high-availability and scalability is top of mind for CIOs today.

By 2023, the IDC predicts enterprises’ ability to rapidly develop their own digital innovations will be a core competitive requirement. This is as more than half of the worldwide economy will be digitally driven.

If there is one place where the global COVID-19 crisis has left its deepest mark on the business sector, it is on the ability to change. Undoubtedly, no one expected or estimated the extent of this crisis, and, these days, it still leaves big question marks in the global and local markets. The published forecasts are mostly bleak, and the uncertainty is great. Although the quarantine is lifted and borders are opening in many places around the world, everything is still handled under great fear and under restrictions.

In the modern world, data is regarded as the lifeblood of an organisation. Consequently, cyber threats have taught us that a reactive response to a data breach, regardless of the magnitude of the event, is no longer adequate.

Undoubtedly no one expected or estimated the extent of this crisis and its resulting uncertainties in the global and local markets. The published forecasts are mostly bleak and uncertainty is still great even though most restrictions have been lifted and borders opened in many places around the world.

Most organisations around the globe have been affected by the lockdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing them to rapidly deploy mobile workforce solutions to support remote staff in order to ensure business continuity. South African businesses have been equally impacted and they typically had to make new applications or workloads available to users who can no longer work on-site. This generally requires some changes and additions to storage infrastructure. However, it has given rise to the conundrum of how does a business increase its storage capacities and maintain its environment, if resources are not readily available onsite? The answer lies in artificial intelligence (AI) and self-healing.

Responding to changing market conditions as markets rebuild in the aftermath of COVID-19 continues to challenge both IT and business leaders. For IT leaders the need to actively minimize risk when making IT investments continues, whilst for business leaders, financial uncertainty is often cited as the top concern. As the author of this article explains, it’s often ‘flexibility’ of IT infrastructure that holds the key to helping to solve the challenges faced by IT and business leaders alike.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced large-scale operational changes in virtually every industry, from education to finance to media and entertainment. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in healthcare – particularly in hospitals.