Across the UK, enterprises are facing an infrastructure landscape that is more fragmented, more operationally demanding, and more strategically consequential than at any point in the last decade.
90% of organisations say their IT environment has become more complex in the past two years, while 75% of data is expected to be generated outside of public cloud environments, reshaping assumptions about cloud adoption, data gravity and long term architectural planning.
At the same time, 94% of ransomware attacks now include attempts to compromise backup environments, underscoring the urgency of modernising data protection strategies.
SCC’s Enterprise Infrastructure Market Review
Our tailored market review distils the IT operations pressures, trends and opportunities into a focused, expert‑led session designed for technology and business leaders who need clarity in an unpredictable market. Drawing on continuous analysis of the compute, storage, virtualisation, HCI and hybrid‑cloud ecosystem, our specialists provide an independent, multi‑vendor perspective on the developments shaping the next 12-24 months.
What is the Enterprise Infrastructure Briefing
A 1–2 hour, in-person briefing, typically delivered at the customer site, led by an SCC Enterprise specialist on your behalf. This is a highly interactive ‘show and tell’ session, designed to spark discussion rather than deliver a one-way presentation.
The briefing gives organisations direct access to SCC’s continuous, real-world insight into the enterprise infrastructure market, drawing on our broad exposure across customers, vendors, and architectures. It is vendor-independent but opinion-led, offering practical perspectives on what’s changing – and what’s staying the same.
What does the session explore?
Sessions explore breaking trends and ongoing market developments across:
- Server and compute platforms
- Storage architectures
- Virtualisation strategies
- Data protection and resilience
The result is a focused, insightful discussion that helps customers better understand their options, challenge assumptions, and identify where change may deliver real value.
Who is the Infrastructure Market review for?
The briefing typically provides clear visibility into our customer’s project priorities and technology partnerships, and key operational challenges. It often opens the door to permission-based discovery, including the use of tools such as LiveOptics to build a data-led view of the current environment.
Where appropriate, it creates scope to challenge the status quo through an as‑is vs to‑be discussion, supported by demos, lab-based workshops, and deeper technical exploration.
Ideally aimed at Heads of IT, Head of Infrastructure, Chief Architect, Head of Platforms, or IT Director. Success is measured through service availability, cost to serve, and overall service performance.
What are the outputs of the Infrastructure Market Review?
The briefing typically provides clear visibility into our customer’s project priorities and technology partnerships, and key operational challenges. It often opens the door to permission-based discovery, including the use of tools such as LiveOptics to build a data-led view of the current environment.
Where appropriate, it creates scope to challenge the status quo through an as‑is vs to‑be discussion, supported by demos, lab-based workshops, and deeper technical exploration.
The briefing explores the disruption created by next‑generation server and storage platforms, the evolution of virtualisation and cloud‑management software, including the industry impact of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and the operational realities of hybrid and multi‑cloud adoption at scale. We also examine the rapid growth of unstructured data and the emerging value unlocked through analytics, automation, machine learning, and generative AI.
For many organisations, this session offers a rare opportunity to step back from day‑to‑day pressures and assess how these shifts align with their own transformation priorities, efficiency, innovation, compliance and time‑to‑value. With insights grounded in SCC’s work across the UK public and private sectors and supported by our strategic partnerships with leading and emerging vendors , the Enterprise Infrastructure Market Review provides a clear, actionable view of what comes next.
If you’re looking for a concise, expert perspective on the future of enterprise infrastructure, this is the ideal place to start.