Digital Transformation is upon us. CIOs and IT leaders everywhere must guide their organizations through this change while enabling their businesses to thrive in the new digital economy – one that has complex channels and new business models that shape new revenue generating products and services. This process of transformation thrusts the role of digital infrastructure, prioritizing it as a strategic investment. This means that CIO and IT leaders must make conscious and forward-looking choices that enable their organization's digital infrastructure

To protect the digital asset value, data and infrastructure security is the top IT infrastructure related investment that organizations make, followed by datacenter IT compute and storage infrastructure. Other key IT infrastructure related investments include mobility, applications, organizational skills, cloud, and data analytics. IDC confirms these findings to be consistent year over year, emphasizing the importance of IT infrastructure to digital transformation. It is no longer an afterthought but a strategic investment area.