IT’s role in business has become more important than ever due to the need to enable remote work, but budgets are generally constrained. How do IT professionals deal with this challenge? In the first episode of HPE Data Unleashed, Guy Smith, head of technology solutions at CDW, discusses this fundamental challenge with Nick Dyer, HPE’s global storage field CTO and technologist. Other topics covered include the commoditisation of data centre architecture to ensure stability and scalability, how hyperconvergence enables better management of the data centre, and maintaining legacy applications. The pair also unpack some of the advantages of HCI 2.0, the new iteration of HCI that fixes some of its drawbacks.