Leaders’ guide to digital infrastructure

In today’s rapidly growing digital economy, you may find your business struggling to stay relevant—especially if you are still bound by physical limitations and legacy dependencies.

Over the past few years, an enormous shift in global demand for digital services and digitized versions of services has prompted many forward-thinking organizations to accelerate their transformation to digital business models, as demonstrated in the findings of the Global Interconnection Index (GXI), an annual report published by Equinix.

This digital-first strategy adopted by market leaders has rewarded them with a huge advantage over competitors who have been slower to react. In fact, the World Economic Forum estimates that ~70% of new value created in the next 10 years will be based on digitally enabled business models.As disruption impacts virtually every industry in the global economy, this shift in value is fueling market opportunity.

Introduction To capture this opportunity, organizations are participating in growing marketplaces at software speed, generating more revenue and value—all built on digital-first strategies.

Yet, while 90% of the companies surveyed by the World Economic Forum acknowledge that digital disruption is impacting their industry, only 39%—an astonishingly low percentage—are actively responding by redesigning their infrastructure. These organizations will reap a healthy financial return on their investment. Those who fail to react will be left behind.