Tony Shortland

Tony is a worldwide portfolio manager in HPE Education Services with 25 years’ experience as a technical instructor and program lead. This is backed by a 35-year career in the IT industry including as a service engineer on the first ProLiant servers and senior positions in the support industry. Today, Tony’s focus is on helping customers understand the impact of new and emerging technologies including composable infrastructure, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.

Managing change and upskill when you are moving to composable infrastructure

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What exactly are the benefits of moving to automated infrastructure provisioning for your company? What does this mean for your future business model? How will you provide new IT and business services over the next 1-2 years? What does this mean for IT teams and each individual?

Composable Infrastructure messaging is typically focused on simplifying tasks and removing IT challenges.

Challenges including:

    • Spending countless hours on infrastructure requests and manual tasks
    • Staffed with IT administrators lacking specialized skillsets
    • Less time for innovation hinders business performance
    • Frustrated lines of business resulting in lower productivity due to lag time
    • Rigid, slow, and costly operations with a manual process

But how many times have you been on the phone to a call centre, renewing your home or car insurance, booking a holiday, or talking to a utility provider, when you hear the phrase “sorry, the computer isn’t doing as it’s told, I thought these things were supposed to make life easier”.

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