Is the Instant-On Enterprise Right for You?

How is your enterprise dealing with Big Data? We’ve written much about the growing benefits and challenges Big Data is posing in the Federal enterprise and have highlighted a number of tools and approaches to addressing issues of big data analytics. While the analytics piece is important and is certainly a significant challenge, there are many other elements of Big Data that can also pose significant challenges. In this post, which is sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP, we lay out a framework for addressing enterprise Big Data challenges based on the Instant-On approach of HP. In future posts we will examine this framework in more detail. 

 

There are fundamental shifts in the way information technology is being used to meet changing business models and mission sets. No where is this more true than in the federal enterprise, where old ways of doing business are changing rapidly. In this new world, the enterprise faces challenges across the full spectrum of information technology and information management. To meet these challenges, only an enterprise-embracing, holistic approach to transformation will deliver the results needed.

This need for a holistic approach is driving approaches such as the HP vision for the “Instant-On Enterprise.” This vision provides a framework and a platform more able to support core business/mission needs. The Instant-On Enterprise approach should be studied for its emphasis on agility and interoperability. It is an aligning of technology to the organizational mission in a way that better addresses the rapidly changing needs of customers and, in the federal case, citizens. It is a model worth exploring as it provides just the sort of comprehensive enterprise view needed to meet many of today’s challenges.

The Instant-On Enterprise delivers on five critical success factors: