Digital Transformations for the Midmarket Through Modern Infrastructure Platforms

Many businesses are pursuing digital transformation (DX) — the adoption of technology-driven, data-centric business models — to outperform the competition. The result? Faster release of new products and services, new business models, and improved customer experiences. Cloud-based infrastructure is the key enabler of such digital transformations.

In a recent survey of 900 IT executives and practitioners, sponsored by Dell Technologies, Intel, and VMware, IDC found that about 87% of the respondents from midmarket organizations (henceforth referred to as "respondents" unless otherwise mentioned) considered infrastructure modernization to be a "very important" or an "extremely important" determinant of DX success. About 95% of them have an executive mandate to move to cloud-based environments, with more than 87% of them having plans to install on-premises private cloud infrastructure in the next 12 months.

In this survey, respondents identified IT infrastructure applications, collaborative applications, and business applications as critical to their business success, requiring four-nines or greater availability. They also rated security, performance, and ease of management as primary drivers for placing workloads between traditional IT, private, or public cloud environments.

Dell Technologies and Intel^®