Construction Magazine August 2020 | Page 18

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so we can work on an environment that lets them ‘ land and expand ’. The other critical challenge enterprises face today beyond that blended set of services , is really around what it means to be open , so that they can get the full value from the broader landscape that they need access to .”
The last major challenge in the shift to a global ecosystem is data gravity , which Sharp describes as fundamental to successful enterprise infrastructure . By 2025 , it is estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created daily worldwide . And while that data was typically created in a centralised place , the proliferation of digital technologies , smartphones , cloud , mobile analytics and more means it is now being created everywhere . That data must still be aggregated in order to analyse , understand , and learn from it . When it collects , a growing number of services and applications use it — against this proliferation of devices , data gravity interacts . This can result in data that is near impossible to move and , according to Digital Realty , “ unfavourable complexity when factoring business locations , proximity to
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