EQUINIX
The world is on the verge of a recession with staggering levels of inflation , increasing energy prices , a climate crisis , and unprecedented disruption . Digital Transformation underpinned by a modern , agile , flexible , secure , and resilient foundational architecture , is imperative for survival , but it is not enough .
Now , there is a legal , as well as a moral , obligation to reduce EU emissions by at least 55 % by 2030 . The Equinix 2022 Global Tech Trends Survey showed that over 70 % of IT leaders said that reducing environmental impact is a critical driver of their technology strategy and 65 % of digital leaders expressed that they will only work with partners that meet their carbon reduction targets .
Organisations are meeting this obligation head on with ambitious corporate sustainability goals in place alongside their digital transformation and infrastructure modernisation programmes . With only one IT refresh cycle left until 2030 , the decisions made in 2023 will have a huge impact on the ability to achieve sustainable competitive advantage .
Yet , the backdrop faced by the digital leaders has never been more complex .
Supply chain issues , chip shortages , technical debt , legacy infrastructure , changing stakeholder requirements , and rigid infrastructure all create financial , operational and energy inefficiencies which threaten to overwhelm digital transformation and the infrastructure modernisation required to achieve it .
Equinix enables organisations to modernise their networks , move appropriate business applications and workloads to the cloud , minimise cloud egress costs , virtualise their digital footprint and house remaining legacy infrastructure within Platform Equinix ®.
Organisations have the flexibility to run the workloads wherever it makes the most sense ; on premises , at the edge or in multiple cloud locations around the world , whilst also ensuring security and data sovereignty requirements are met .
This composable infrastructure allows organisations the flexibility to address the operational and power inefficiencies whilst reducing cost which allows them to accelerate their digital transformation and achieve sustainability goals .
Figure 1 . Organisation Challenges
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