Data Solutions expands MCS to address transactions, analytics, and AI

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Find out why taking a data-first approach to IT modernization is the only way to keep up with data growth today and how HPE Mission Critical Solutions has evolved to help.

In the zettabyte era, there’s simply too much data for organizations to fully take advantage of it all. Data growth is exploding and will reach 180 ZB of new data in 2025¹, created across the edge, on premises, and in the cloud. And although most businesses have made AI and analytics their top priority², 76% believe they’ve failed³ to build the kind of data-driven organization needed to keep up.

What makes handling all this data so difficult? It’s not just the sheer volume. It’s the need for taking a data-first approach to IT modernization.

Without this data-first approach, enterprise data is often spread across silos that span multiple generations of IT. Key data may by trapped in legacy systems, which are difficult to modernize—but also difficult to maintain because the skills needed to run them are increasingly scarce, as key personnel nears retirement. Many businesses are highly cautious about touching mission-critical systems that work and already deliver the uptime levels they need. Often, they find the challenge overwhelming.

But by postponing modernization, businesses fall further behind their data-driven, cloud-enabled competitors.

HPE Mission Critical Solutions has been helping solve data problems like these for decades by supporting vital systems of record with industry-leading technology and expertise. But today, enterprises are adopting broader, data-first strategies. Businesses want to replace data silos with data pipelines and cloud-native architectures, so they can increase enterprise intelligence and IT flexibility. Meeting these new data priorities means using new data solutions and platforms. As analysts IDC put it⁴: "new data and analytics strategies are driving a need to reassess architectures that have existed for years."

That is why Mission Critical Solutions has expanded into Data Solutions, reflecting the evolution of our offerings to meet a broader set of data challenges. Over the years, our technologies have evolved to become open, modern, virtualized platforms that provide the flexibility you need to innovate, while continuing to deliver the highest levels of availability and uptime you have relied on. Data Solutions is here to help you:

• Accelerate decision velocity through workload-optimized solutions developed in tandem with our rich partner ecosystem
• Unlock the value of data trapped in legacy systems with a modernization path you can trust
• Deliver innovation with agility through freedom of deployment choice while you retain full control of your critical data

But what is the new broader set of challenges, and how will Data Solutions help you address them?

The continuum of data challenges

HPE Mission Critical Solutions was once focused on processing transactions and running systems of record. But to full take advantage of data today, businesses also need systems of intelligence (e.g., analytics) and systems of insight (e.g., AI), which can accelerate decisions and drive the business forward.

Data has become the life force of business, and that has created a continuum of transactional and analytics data challenges. High-velocity data transactions run the daily business operations. At the same time, real-time analysis of those transactions can yield intelligence. And that intelligence can fuel systems of insight, using AI to reveal insights that drive the business forward.

To make the right decisions, businesses need to be able to effectively handle this continuum of transactional and analytics data challenges.

Your partner for data-first modernization

You can trust Data Solutions to continue to keep your systems of record available and secure.

We also offer a path to modernization you can trust, so you can build a data pipeline that feeds your systems of intelligence and systems of insight. Many customers have a lot of valuable data trapped in legacy systems, and those systems cost a lot of money. HPE has the technology, expertise, and services to help you modernize and unlock the value of that data at any scale.

And we will give you freedom of choice when it comes to deployment with a unified delivery model from edge to cloud, and a seamless cloud experience with the right service levels for critical environments.

Your peers are already sharing their Data Solutions success stories—both in modernizing systems of record and building innovative customer experiences. Two recent examples come from the banking world:

• Red Link, a leading provider of real-time financial transaction processing in Argentina experienced a steep spike in digital payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Backed by the HPE NonStop fault-tolerant processing platform, they managed a 50% rise in volume, processing more than 47 million transactions a day and providing continuity to millions of Argentinians. Digital transactions are now driving significant growth for the company and will continue to do so in the future.
• Yapı Kredi, Turkey’s third largest private bank in the country, modernized their critical banking environment with HPE Superdome Flex 280. The team no longer worries about running out of capacity as they grow because of the seamless modular architecture and high scalability of the platform. In addition, they trust the platform’s RAS capabilities to provide the high levels of uptime demanded in banking.

As Data Solutions, we look forward to serving your needs across the full data continuum and supporting the success of your enterprise. To learn more about the modern platforms powering our solutions, click below.

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Meet Compute Experts blogger, Diana Cortes, Marketing Manager, Data Solutions

Diana has spent the past 23 years working with the technologies that power the world’s most demanding IT environments and is interested in how solutions based on those technologies impact the business. A native from Colombia, Diana holds an MBA from Georgetown University and has held a variety of regional and global roles with HPE in the US, the UK and Sweden. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden.  Connect with Diana on LinkedIn!

[1] https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-big-data-statistics-you-must-know-in-2021/

[2] https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=AP47756221

[3] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210104005022/en/NewVantage-Partners-Releases-2021-Big-Data-and-AI-Executive-Survey

[4] https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US47402321