The most immediate impact of digital transformation is an explosion in data volumes. When you hailed a yellow cab, there was virtually no record of that journey anywhere. Whereas, when you take an Uber or Ola cab today, your entire route map is stored for eternity. Just imagine the amount of data exhaust that creates – and the need for storage that triggers.

Closer to the shop floor, Internet of Things technology uses scores of sensors to measure temperature, vibration, dust level and dozens of other parameters in the production facility. And repeats the readings every hour, if not few minutes. This creates a huge demand for storage.

Apart from this, there are growing demands on storage from traditional workloads like office automation, mail server, calendar and other workgroup applications through to ERP, CRM, CAD/CAM and other enterprise applications.

With everything going digital, the cost of downtime has skyrocketed. A high performant storage solution needs to be complemented with a reliable backup system.

Our Enterprise Storage products and solutions span All-Flash and Hybrid Storage, Data Protection and Archive Storage, File-based Storage, and Storage Networking. Some of them also include intelligence to make them smarter and easier to use.

"Enterprise IT teams today are looking for ways to deliver on-premises IT services with the speed and operational efficiency of public cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. A comprehensive enterprise cloud platform bridges the gap between traditional infrastructure and public cloud services – and hyperconvergence is at the core of an enterprise or hybrid cloud infrastructure."

On-premise infrastructure provides greater control. Public cloud provides greater speed and operational efficiency.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure provides the best of both worlds.

Legacy datacenters consist of separate servers, storage networks and storage arrays. Each infrastructure building block works in a separate silo, needs to be controlled by its own management software and requires dedicated resources. The 3-tier architecture helped infrastructure teams update individual modules without affecting layers amidst the explosion of the web in the 1990s.

But this architecture can’t keep up with IT needs in the current era of hybrid IT. It’s complex, unwieldy, doesn’t provide a firm foundation for DevOps, and can’t scale with the magnitude it used to.

Today, HCI is the infrastructure of choice for companies that want to stay competitive, drive innovation and agility, and ensure that their datacenters are cloud-ready.

HCI converges the entire datacenter stack, including compute, storage, networking, and virtualization. Complex and expensive legacy infrastructure is replaced by a platform running on turnkey, industry-standard servers that enable enterprises to start small and scale one node at a time. Software running on each server node distributes all operating functions across the cluster for superior performance and resilience. In this manner, HCI enables enterprises to create a cloudlike provisioning model while maintaining physical control of IT assets and data on-premises in the data center, remote site or branch office.

That said, HCI adoption is fueled by more than JUST "hybrid cloud enablement" and is gradually expanding to enabling edge environments, AI-based operations and secondary storage in HCI environments.

Modern enterprises have dozens of servers, probably one each for Mail Server, File Server, Financial Accounting software, Inventory Management application, and so on. CIOs know that, with almost all of them working at around 20% capacity, there’s so much idle capacity lying around.

Still when a new application needs to be launched, their infra teams ask for 4-6 weeks to provision the required infrastructure.

If only there was a way to abstract the unused capacity from each of their existing servers and spin up a new server instance on demand. It will help CIOs innovate quickly and cheaply, test new digital products and services ideas in the market, refine them, and release them on a regular basis, thereby giving you tremendous competitive advantage.

There is.

Welcome to Virtualization.

According to Gartner, https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/virtualization, Virtualization is the abstraction of IT resources that masks the physical nature and boundaries of those resources from resource users. An IT resource can be a server, a client, storage, networks, applications or OSs. Essentially, any IT building block can potentially be abstracted from resource users.

Digital transformation goes well beyond computerization.

Merely computerizing your existing paper processes delivers substandard solutions. At best, the new system matches the paper-based process but lacks intelligence or personalization. At worst, the new system is so cumbersome that it drives users back to the old paper-based process.

True digital transformation is the combination of the latest in social, mobility, analytics and cloud technologies with best practices in UI, UX and CX to deliver cutting edge solutions that elevate revenue, profits and customer experience to the next level.

Key to successful digital transformation is digitalization of edge workflows that have remained manual even after the company implemented ERP, CRM, Core Banking and other enterprise applications. We can find examples of manual activities in the last mile areas in departments like time office, visitor gate pass, warehouse pick and pack, goods receipting, truck dispatch, attendance recording, conference room booking, help desk, and so on.

By digitalizing their edge processes, enterprises gain the next level of benefits of true digital transformation by way of streamlined operations, reduced costs and improved customer experience.

But to get there, they need to Connect Everything^TM.

Enter Unique Solutions.

We empower enterprises in their digital transformation journeys with networks that

• Connect the shop floor, sensors, branches, overseas offices, social networks, and every far recess of the company
• Can operate in extreme ambient conditions of temperature and dust
• Are extremely reliable, which is critical since network outages can cripple a company’s operations in the absence of manual processes, and
• Are extremely secure, thereby protecting applications from ever-growing attack surface presented by networks spreading farther and wider than ever before.

As a certified networking partner of HPE Aruba, Cisco, Extreme and other l eading OEMs, Unique Solutions provides a comprehensive range of unified network products and services to keep your enterprise network secure and humming along 24/7/365.

According to HPE, "Transforming to modular-based data center facilities will help your service delivery, not only from your core data centers but also at the edge and for your distributed IT."

The edge comes to the center in digital transformation, especially when it comes to the datacenter design.

This means traditional data centers don’t cut it in today's digital world.

Unique Solutions provides a wide range of Vertiv SmartRow and Smart Cabinet smart racks as the basic building block of a modular datacenter. Each datacenter will include smart racks for server, storage, networking, power, UPS, cooling, access control and fire fighting elements.