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EMC provides the systems which enable cloud computing and according to Cheam Tat Inn, managing director of EMC Malaysia, most organisations focused on the consolidation of their IT infrastructure and business production in 2011 to save costs and increased efficiency and productivity of their information systems.
This stage involved laying the foundation for a cloud in the form of operating systems, social presence, static security, data management, virtualisation of mission-critical applications and server virtualisation.
Then in 2012, they have begun to offer business value by selling cloud-based IT-as-a-service, including choice computing & mobility, social enterprise & collaboration, dynamic security, predictive analytics, cloud applications and cloud computing.
Such services are able to process huge volumes of raw data such as flat files, etc. to derive insights, hence value out of them, much like how a factory converts raw materiels into useful products.
Now that they have got past the virtualisation stage, service providers can now provide IT-as-a-service.
They must also cater to the needs of today’s younger employees by allowing them to use their own devices such as notebook or netbook PCs, tablets and smartphones for their work, and to let them configure and provision the computing and communications resources they need without having to wait for the IT department to do it for them.
While this poses new challenges, especially to security, they also must be able to cope with this wider exposure to security risks.
Without naming them, Cheam cited four Malaysian customers which had embraced cloud transformation.
One is a bank which had an old data warehouse which resulted in it taking too long to provide key information for its management to make decisions upon, resulting it loss of competitiveness. So the bank installed EMC’s Greenplum massive parallel processing database solution which provided analyses results on-time.
Second is a government agency which needed a reliable infrastructure to store and archive photo and video evidence of traffic light and speeding violations for later retrieval if required. It installed the EMC VNX5700 unified storage and Centera content addressed storage in a VMware environment for data protection and efficient network replication.
Third is an oil and gas exploration and production company which needed to upgrade its multiple disparate ageing heterogeneous systems which was not scalable, complex to manager and encountered bottlenecks. So it implemented EMC’s 7 x S200 clustered Isilon network-attached storage (NAS) nodes in production under Phase 1.
Fourth is a global data centre and service hub for a leading direct selling company in Malaysia which needed a highly scalable IT infrastructure to support its business services across the region. It’s existing EMC CX4-480 storage was already at 90% capacity, so it upgraded it to an EMC VNX5700-34TB unified storage with Connectrix storage network consolidation switch.
