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Nokia has announced enhancements to its WaveSuite optical network automation platform which it says are aimed at meeting urgent customer needs for increased bandwidth, reliability and imperceptible latency.

GUEST OPINION: The pandemic and the various world events that have occurred over the past four years have put the global economy in check, generating friction in supply chains around the world and affecting the costs of production, distribution, and consumption, and causing inflation on a global scale.

This context has had a major impact on the priorities and decisions of IT leaders in Asia-Pacific countries.

Modernising IT infrastructures is a key part of the C-level strategy when it comes to adapting the value proposition of companies to changing markets. In the face of uncertainty, the flexibility offered by IT consumption as-a-service has become the CIO's alternative to traditional procurement models. Shall we discuss CAPEX versus OPEX again?

Capital Expenditures, or “CAPEX,” is the financial concept associated with investments in physical assets such as servers and infrastructure for data centres. On the other hand, OPEX identifies the category of "Operating Expenses", which, like electricity, are charged according to consumption - an attribute that defines cloud computing services.

These paradigms in IT procurement have confronted the visions of CFOs and CIOs at the boardroom table for a long time. Faced with the imponderables of the future, the CIOs' initiative was to overburden annual IT investment budgets, while finance pushed to limit them.

Companies today have seen the benefits of shifting part of their digital infrastructure spending to consumption as-a-service. The reason? The need to make their organisations more flexible and agile to react to various IT challenges, especially the ability to scale storage capacity to meet future or temporary requirements and ensure that the business continues to grow without incurring higher capital expenditures.

Another factor that provides greater value to the "as-a-service" model is the productivity of the IT team. An IDC study has shown that by moving to the as-a-service model, IT staff capitalises 20% of their time to refocus on operational requirements that are of higher priority and bring greater value to the business.

Revolutionising as-a-service IT infrastructure with Dell APEX subscriptions
Aligning IT costs directly with infrastructure utilisation allows CIOs to solve several headaches:

1. Mitigate operational risks stemming from fluctuations in workloads. Cyclical businesses demand the ability to scale up when there are periods of intense demand on systems and to scale down when workloads drop. High-growth businesses, where new applications and enhanced technologies enter the portfolio, require agility to scale and adapt to the changing business environment. Dell Technologies APEX Subscriptions enables organisations to scale up or down based on their business needs. For example, an organisation with flexible storage support from APEX Subscriptions .

2. Free up IT staff to focus on high-value projects. By deploying IT-as-a-Service, infrastructure lifecycle work such as upgrades, patches, repairs, troubleshooting and support services can optionally be incorporated into the Dell Technologies load with APEX Subscriptions. This allows IT staff to spend up to 20% of their time on operational requirements that are of higher priority and bring greater value to the business.

3. Meet KPIs and business outcomes. Traditional CAPEX procurement cannot adapt and scale to meet new demands without risks of minimising or overcompensation when acquiring technology. With APEX Subscriptions, Dell Technologies can further adjust and right-size and configure memory, storage capacity, processing units, I/O, connectivity and other critical areas to deliver highly optimised business outcomes. Additionally, it offers the flexibility to locate equipment in customer-defined facilities.

4. Innovate in financing models. Dell APEX Subscriptions offers consumption as-a-service in its infrastructure, servers, storage, converged/hyper-converged infrastructure and data protection solutions to simplify and bring agility to the IT anywhere organisation. Organisations that have adopted this model have achieved a 25% lower IT acquisition cost and an average cost of storage operations 23% lower per year. In addition, APEX Subscriptions enables efficient, simple and predictable management of utilisation costs.

APEX Subscriptions, Dell Technologies infrastructure cloud experience model and as-a-service solutions, addresses the critical components for organisations to scale their technology capacity, capitalise on the strategic value of their technical staff, ensure business outcomes with flexibility to locate equipment in customer-defined facilities, from the earliest stages of IT financing.

GUEST OPINION Data centres play a critical role in keeping the global economy productive. Demand for data storage and processing has become insatiable worldwide, which makes it more challenging than ever to operate and scale these facilities efficiently. Managers also face mounting pressure to make their operations more energy efficient. Data centres consume about three per cent of the world’s electricity – more than most countries – and produce two per cent of global carbon emissions – about the same as the entire airline industry.

2020 has shown the importance of thinking in terms of 'smart normal' rather than 'new normal,' suggested Lenovo data centre group Asia Pacific president Sumir Bhatia.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT:  Buying network infrastructure from a carrier may be convenient, but often comes at a considerable cost, as it is many times accompanied by higher fees, complex to scale, and reliance on a third party for resolving technical issues.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT:  Buying network infrastructure from a carrier may be convenient, but often comes at a considerable cost, as it is many times accompanied by higher fees, complex to scale, and reliance on a third party for resolving technical issues.

Global IT management software provider, SolarWinds, has announced the majority of its on-premises IT operations management products now have subscription-based pricing available.

Ericsson has launched AI-powered Energy Infrastructure Operations, a new energy management solution that leverages artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to optimise energy consumption across network infrastructure for communications service providers.

Faced with a huge upfront CapEx (capital expenditure) or pay as you go (OpEx) with the ability to scale up or down – no wonder almost every industry is moving to the subscription model.

Data61 and the CSIRO's Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, Principal Scientist, Strategy and Foresight, has shared his 2016 predictions, from capex to opex, new theories, automation and more!

Knowledge management software provider, Knosys, has raised $4 million in capital in preparation for listing on the ASX on Wednesday.

Viktor Babkov, CTO, Business Continuity International, to deliver report 'Fast Backup of Business Infrastructures after Malfunction. Comparison with Traditional Ways of Reserve Copying. What is the Cost and What are the Offers in the Market?' on 18 November at the main stage of InfoSecurity Russia. StorageExpo. Documation'2010. All CEOs and CIOs are welcome to attend the speech that starts at 14:15.