| FIVE WAYS TO REDUCE IT COMPLEXITY | |  | | Annie Shah | Ingram Micro UK&I Marketing Campaign Manager, HPE | infrastructures can become increasingly complex as they evolve and grow. The answer for many businesses lies in the simplicity that hybrid IT provides. What is hybrid IT? This is where an organisation consumes both cloud and onpremises IT. It can make firms more flexible and agile, giving them the scalability to grow and flourish, limiting the large costs associated with cloud, but enabling traditional infrastructure to be just as flexible as cloud solutions. Businesses can utilise the simplicity of hybrid IT and streamline operations to dramatically increase the speed of an infrastructure’s functioning. | | | | | Manage IT | | A vital element around hybrid IT is to ensure efficiency and ease of management. | | | | | Get Services Support | | Reduce complexity of an IT infrastructure through hybrid IT by ensuring that a business has the support of expert advice. | | | | | Be Ready to Scale Up | | Plan in advance to ensure your hybrid IT has the scalability it needs, particularly building up remote and branch offices. | | | | | Flexibility is Key | | Invest in a hybrid IT infrastructure that enables your business to make the right decisions for its specific needs. | | | | | Keep it Reliable | | Businesses must ensure they have a robust hybrid IT infrastructure that can be relied on to deliver ongoing functionality. | | | | | | | | IOT INDUSTRY INSIGHTS… | | New digital services, powertrains and ownership models are transforming the auto industry. | |  | | Estimated number of new cars with technology that connects them to the surrounding world by 2020.1 | |  | | Expected global revenue from digital content in autos by 2021 (from $46 billion in 2016).2 | |  | | Transmitted by connected cars to the cloud every hour. That’s as much info as is stored in a dozen HD movies!3 | | | | | | 1 John Greenough, “The Connected Car Report: Forecasts, competing technologies and leading manufacturers”, Business Insider, January 7, 2016. 2 Ricard Vierecki, Dietmar Ahlemann, Alex Koster, Sebastian Jursch, “Connected Car Study: Racing ahead with autonomous cars and digital innovation,” PwC, September 16, 2015. 3 Chuck Tannert, “Will You Ever Be Able to Afford a Self-Driving Car?,” Fast Company, January 31, 2014. | |  | | WHEN YOU’RE FASTEST, YOU’RE FIRST! | | SEE HOW HPE TECHNOLOGY PLAYED A ROLE IN HELPING LEWIS HAMILTON CLINCH THE 2018 FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | | Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport is delighted to announce a new partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to enhance the team’s operational efficiency, car performance and overall technology capability. Recognizing that organizations that harness data – and have the speed and agility to learn from and quickly act on it – will be the winners, HPE is focused on developing intelligent solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze and act upon data seamlessly from edge to cloud. Through the new partnership, the team will benefit from advisory services from HPE Pointnext, as well as innovative software solutions from HPE. | | “Data is becoming increasingly important – not just in the world of Formula One, but the world in general. In F1, we use data on our relentless search for performance, across all functions of the team – both at the track and at the factory. With the support of HPE we can better process and analyse that data, enabling our team members to do what they do best – from the early stages of conceiving a competitive car to the final moment of the car setup on a race weekend. Formula One has always been on the forefront of technological development and with partners like HPE we are able to accelerate our development rate to an even faster pace.” | | | | | | | NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTIONS | | Learn about the latest HPE Product and Solution releases this month... all to help customers achieve true digital transformation! | | | | | | |