David Grant , Associate Director , Enterprise Services at Canadian Blood Services , discusses his role in the organization ’ s recently completed data center migration and ongoing digital transformation

T he ability to gather , interpret and protect its data is increasingly becoming the metric by which a company survives or perishes . Data has become , in short , the lifeblood of the modern organization . However , in the past five years , the staggering speed at which IT advancements have swept across every industry has placed pressure on enterprises looking to house IT systems and data in onsite legacy infrastructure . “ The sheer volume of IT services and the explosion of data means that it all has to be stored somewhere , and if it ’ s not in your own data center , it needs to be in somebody else ’ s . It ’ s led to enormous growth in capacity across the commercial space , and those new data centers have been built with the latest technologies which can quite often put your own in-house data center to shame ,” explains David Grant , Associate Director , Enterprise Services at Canadian Blood Services . “ When you look at the needs of the modern digital workplace , then attempt to retrofit your own data center real estate to give it the same capabilities as some