Francois du Plessis, Co-owner and service delivery manager at ITgility.

IT and application architectures have evolved significantly in recent years, as technologies like mobile computing, cloud and big data have disrupted the status quo. Innovation today has to be rapid and effective. That demands an agile IT foundation, and a key aspect of this is an IT architecture and datacentre design that enables agility and flexibility in rapidly deploying and supporting new services.

To achieve the performance, resiliency, and scalability required in the datacentre, solid initial planning of the infrastructure design is critical. This is why it’s crucial to choose the right partner to assist with what is a complex and ongoing process, says Jacques Swanevelder, CTO at ITgility.