The amount of data the world captures and consumes continues to increase exponentially. Today’s typical large organization is hoarding an average of 35 petabytes (PBs) of data across their systems. By 2025, decision-makers in Asian organizations estimate it will top 80 petabytes. Modern leaders have to balance this unprecedented demand for scale against complexities such as growing ethical and regulatory pressures, sustainability, data protection and governance.

When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, his work revolutionized the way in which people understood biology and evolution. Today, the theory of evolution can be applied more broadly. Powerful new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), combined with large volume of data that inundates every business, are giving the smart adopters a competitive advantage and increasing the metabolic rate of change.

This is the age of data & digital Darwinism, in which it is not the strongest or most intelligent that survives, but the one that most successfully uses data – across intelligent, resilient infrastructure, to adapt to change, unlock opportunities and seize competitive advantage.