Clear goals hampered by execution complexities
New research on the investment priorities of Australian infrastructure leaders has identified their top goals as modernising and simplifying tech1 – with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) emerging as the number one networking and storage investment priority2.
In the increasingly complex hybrid Gen-AI world, infrastructure leaders need the unparalleled network control, connectivity, and security that the SDN approach delivers. So, what’s stopping the shift? Let’s take a look at the top 10 barriers to execution for Australian infrastructure leaders – across lack of funding, people and technology.
Lack of funding is the #1 barrier
Despite higher overall infrastructure budgets of CIOs, CISOs and CDAOs, infrastructure leaders acknowledge their current budgets aren’t enough to fund their modernisation imperative. With competing organisational priorities in challenging economic conditions, make a compelling investment case to the C-suite and other budget decision-makers by:
- highlighting non-negotiable spend on regulatory and compliance-led obligations
- using the opportunity of SDN …