Webscale architectures were born in the data center, but as they move to the wide area network (WAN) and the network edge, they must confront some challenging but not unsolvable problems.
Development and operations teams are now tasked with transforming the mainframe into an engine for agility, where it has traditionally been a siloed platform with slow processes that prioritized system reliability over customer value.
Gartner predicts that more than 30 percent of data centers that fail to sufficiently prepare for AI will no longer be operationally or economically viable by 2020.