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“The world is transforming, and Dell EMC is focusing on enabling partners to help businesses to transform with the programme to take transformation to the market,” Jonas Bogoshi, Dell EMC Channel Director for Southern Africa, told attendees at Pinnacle TechScape 2017.

Technology is transforming the way we live and work at an ever-increasing pace, and the change can bring rich opportunities and transform whole industries.

“Every five years we see ten times improvement in processing power, storage, and available bandwidth, so by 2031 these will have improved by 1,000 times,” said Bogoshi. “Imagine the impact it will have on business and industries.”

This fast-paced change is driving digital transformation, and technology is now at the core of business and not merely isolated in the IT department.

“In the last 15 years, the focus of the IT department was to build and support traditional systems of records, while in the next 15 years, technology will include systems of engagement and systems of insight that have been built for the cloud,” Bogoshi added.

“Trillions of Dollars have spent on traditional IT infrastructure and applications over the last 15 years, yet while traditional IT systems will still be important in the future, companies need to start allocating budget to IT transformation.”

IT organisations seek a partner to help with this transformation, which is why Dell and EMC created a technology powerhouse focused on value and innovation and IT infrastructure from the edge to the core and into the cloud.

“Customers are using IT differently, they want to pay as they consume, and digital transformation requires agility and the redirection of costs into other parts of your business, which Dell EMC can assist you with,” Bogoshi said.

Transformation is needed in 3 key areas – IT, workforce, and security – and Bogoshi said businesses need to consider workforce mobility, moving to a hybrid cloud, which can save 24% of costs, and business and intelligence-driven end-to-end solutions that allow businesses to detect threats earlier and manage risk better.

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