Q1 2019

MEAMARKETS / Q1 2019 19 As You Accelerate on Your Cloud Journey, Make Sure Data is in the Driver’s Seat running on-premises. Being able to send copies of the data out to the public cloud gives enterprises a huge advantage of scale with an agile compute architecture. By having that same common data layer, you’re taking that same on-prem data centric architecture and extending the experience into the public cloud. Similarly, native cloud app deployments can be enhanced by getting data services that increase efficiency through data reduction, snapshot, and replication facilities. Indeed, your data should even define your disaster recovery (DR) strategy. In a multi-cloud world, data centricity enables you to leverage the cloud as a second data centre. In an on-prem environment, spinning up the cloud-hosted backup environment makes recovery much less painful. That’s how you liberate applications, unify cloud, manage data across the data centre and cloud—to unlock new use cases like AI and real-time analytics and ultimately give your organization the data advantage.