Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Awareness

Unfaltering experience is a critical differentiator to Digital businesses today. Experience Quality in terms of Zero-downtime planned or otherwise, agile, and rapid feature releases, dynamic scalability, absolutely reliable performance and security is mandatory. Every time this Quality slips, the business loses money and customers. Yet, most enterprises are still grappling with very large incident volumes, unreliable performance and unpredictable consequences of change. While Automation of Ops has helped mitigate these effects, the benefits seen are around 20-30% improvements, not the 10X improvements that businesses need.

Businesses around the globe are challenged to bring value and innovation wherever their customers are. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders have a critical role to play in transforming and enhancing their capabilities to empower the anywhere business. I&O leaders will need to focus on enhancing customer experiences and developing staff and skills, while building and operating resilient, sustainable, secure and scalable platforms and systems.

To power a tech-driven economy by 2030, the Malaysian Govt. has launched a 10-year digital economy blueprint called MyDIGITAL. The datacentre & cloud industry has emerged as the key enabler for realizing this vision. With all the favourable conditions like cost-competitive power availability, easy access to skilled employees, abundant renewable energy along with a relatively cheaper access to land and construction costs in the ASEAN region, the Malaysian datacentre market size is set to witness $1.4 billion investment by 2026. The country’s public cloud market alone has reached $643.4 million, making it the second-biggest cloud market in Southeast Asia.

The future of digital infrastructure is cloud in all its forms: private, hybrid and multicloud including edge. To use cloud successfully, organizations need to align their digital infrastructure with their business strategy and master 7 aspects of cloud: