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106 massively in physical and cloud infrastructure as a means of stemming the capital costs associated with expanding their infrastructure internally .
This is only intensified by the changing regulations surrounding data and network infrastructure , such as GDPR and data sovereignty across Europe . Companies are now required to know about every part of their data centers and be able to control the flow of that data . “ Many organisations treat their data centers like one giant bucket ,” he says . “ Then they just keep throwing additional resources in to that bucket rather than going through and slicing that bucket up into smaller areas and providing adequate control in and out of those smaller areas .”
Nevertheless , regulations surrounding data control has and will continue to drive technological development and implementation and this requires the CIOs and CTOs of the world to stay ahead of the game in order for their organisations to not fall behind .
The tools and the traditional way of approaching things , O ’ Neil explains ,
“ Look at it like this . You always lock your front door in your house . But once somebody ’ s in your house , you really should be locking all the rooms ’ doors so that you can control access to all the individual rooms ”
— Don O ’ Neil , Director , Technology Consulting
OCTOBER 2018