Tim Bailey, director of platform marketing, Intel Asia-Pacific
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Q: Is all this news about the recession next year expected to affect business? Or do you expect it to be business as usual?
What’s happening worldwide is affecting everyone. Nevertheless, there are a couple of trends in our favor:
- The PC and access to the Internet has become indispensable. We feel we will emerge from this cycle stronger than ever because of that--especially as the Web increasingly goes mobile, and we deliver products (e.g. Mobile Internet Devices) that enable the truly mobile Internet.
- The trend towards high-definition devices continues to drive demand for advanced compute capability.
- There are still billions of people who aren't connected, and all around the world governments are looking to invest in technology as a way to be competitive. That is not going away and in fact, it is more important than ever.
- WiMax, where we’re working to bring Wi-Fi economics to the wireless broadband segment.
What role does IT play today in the organization?
IT has increasingly become a strategic differentiator for the organizations. Compounded with the current economic situation the biggest challenge is “how to drive more innovation and differentiation with equal or lesser budget”.
Research shows that currently close to 90 percent of IT budgets is spent on maintenance activities. Organizations need to invest in IT project that reduces total cost of ownership, is eco-friendly and improves the productivity of the organization.
On the server side, the challenges include Datacenters optimization utilizing more efficient infrastructure from server, network and storage and to really own the true total cost of ownership on CapEx and OpEx.
The key mandates for IT managers are to accelerate infrastructure refresh and decommission old hardware (instead of re-purposing) to take full advantage of new technologies to consolidate, virtualize and reduce energy consumption to support business objective while reducing operating cost.
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