Having a cloud-first mindset is no longer the
right answer. Here are three advantages businesses
gain when they become data-first organizations:
Data-First Advantage #1
Increase Productivity With Optimal Infrastructure
For All Your Data
Your IT infrastructure should be built to serve your business—not the other way around. That’s why a data-first strategy is centered on your internal workloads, the computing resources that keep your business running.
With a secure edge-to-cloud platform like HPE GreenLake, organizations can run their workloads wherever best supports their business needs. Whether operating on-premises, at the edge, in the public cloud—or across a combination of these locations—organizations can also deploy and manage all of their workloads using a single console and single platform. This means business leaders can dedicate more attention to business priorities “rather than solving the challenge of consuming infrastructure,” Asad said.
Customers should run their workloads wherever it makes financial and business sense for them. They should not have to choose a public cloud infrastructure or an on-prem infrastructure based on the fact that one is easier or more difficult to use as compared to the other.”
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Omer Asad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Industry Spotlight
What Happens When Healthcare Infrastructure Is Data-First?
With A Data-First Approach
Without A Data-First Approach
Consolidated data across healthcare systems optimizes care decisions, budget planning and workload placement.
Scalable and efficient data storage supports processing high volumes of important data like medical imaging.
Increased agility for handling advanced electronic health record (EHR) data improves care decisions.
Data silos make it hard to predict IT resource costs, leading to longer budget approval cycles.
Rising infrastructure costs limit storage capacity for critical imaging, surgery and healthcare study data.
Complex data management within legacy IT infrastructure restricts the ability to get value out of new EHR systems.
Data-First Advantage #2
Improve Outcomes With Unified Analytics
A data-first strategy allows for collating data across isolated systems so you can see and analyze your data in one place, reducing risk and revealing hidden insights.
When you’re able to track your workload and data lineage across the public cloud, on-prem or the edge, you are able to gather new and valuable insights, because now everything is combined into a single management view across the entire data life cycle.”
Omer Asad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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In the car manufacturing industry, for example, Asad explained how electric vehicles are equipped with sensors that constantly stream data back to on-premises data centers. It’s easy for data from these edge devices to become siloed from an organization’s other workloads in the public cloud.
A data-first strategy brings all this data together for enhanced management and analysis. Teams can analyze data generated at the edge—like sensor data—alongside primary data, which may track sales or car maintenance schedules. This consolidation helps organizations better understand how operations affect business outcomes like customer experience or pricing.
Industry Spotlight
What Happens When Manufacturing Analytics Are Data-First?
With A Data-First Approach
Without A Data-First Approach
Comprehensive analysis of data across plant floors, supply chains and customer call centers yields actionable insights.
Telemetry across devices helps warn managers of equipment failures and repair needs.
Improved research and development fuels innovation and enables teams to run data-driven simulations.
Limited insights trickle from data silos constrained within disparate systems and global locations.
Unplanned downtime compounds product shortages due to inability to predict issues at the edge.
Missed opportunities to develop new products and processes pile up as competitors innovate.
Data-First Advantage #3
Streamline Operations With A Single Source
Of Truth
A fully instrumented, data-first infrastructure is “set up to analyze and reanalyze your outcomes as metrics on a continuous basis,” Asad said.
Telemetry provides a constant stream of metadata from all your systems back to a single dashboard. This allows IT teams to implement predictive models to identify risks and respond accordingly.
We believe you should be able to instrument your work, your IT processes, any decision-making processes—and be able to quantify your outcomes with metrics. Being able to analyze them on a running basis allows you to mitigate any risk very quickly.”
Omer Asad, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Asad shared the example of an unstaffed data center equipped with thermal and moisture sensors. A management platform that is constantly analyzing the environment would alert the IT team of a potential failure like flooding or overheating before it happens, preventing costly repairs and downtime. This ability not only saves money—it also allows organizations to manage data proactively.
Industry Spotlight
What Happens When Telecom Operations Are Data-First?
With A Data-First Approach
Without A Data-First Approach
Single source of truth improves data management and monitoring across a range of workloads.
Optimized scalability helps you implement any service, function or network level and prepare for 5G.
Reduced IT costs make customer pricing more competitive and the creation of new services more likely.
Insufficient capacity monitoring leads to periods when resources are underused or overused.
Restricted innovation prevents teams from connecting new services to existing infrastructure.
Higher costs increase the risk of entering new markets and meeting customers’ demands on price.
A data-first strategy drives you to create the right solutions for your data environment—in the public cloud, at the edge or on-premises. By partnering with HPE to implement your data-first approach, you get a cloud-like experience, customized for your unique business and financial needs. Ready to get started? Explore HPE GreenLake, the edge-to-cloud platform from Hewlett Packard Enterprise.