Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Delivers Value as it Goes Mainstream in the Data Center.
Overview: A recent study by IDG Research found that 85% of IT leaders say their companies already use or are planning to use hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Implementers report lower costs, improved customer experience, better productivity, and increased efficiency from their HCI deployment. This paper covers how HCI is modernizing the data center and helping IT meet the needs of increasingly digital business activity.
“Embrace change or be left behind” has long been a rationale for adopting new technology. Given today’s wave of technology advances that allow quick-moving startups to become industry disruptors, embracing new technology has
become even more important.
The increasing pace of digital business activity is also driving the need for IT transformation. Changing how data center infrastructure is deployed and consumed can dramatically improve IT’s ability to meet new demands for serving the business.
Specifically, IT organizations now need to support greater business agility and value through:
● Scalability, flexibility, and performance for a wide range of workloads and applications.
● Fewer silos and reduced deployment complexity.
● Strong capabilities for data protection.
● Streamlined, cost-effective operations and management.
● Adaptability for automation through cloud and other new technologies.
● Improved use of data and analytics.
● Better alignment of IT performance metrics to business outcomes.
● Ability to serve new business needs quickly and economically.
In recent years, IT organizations have looked to converged infrastructure (CI) to address these requirements. Now, many companies are instead choosing hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), especially as part (or in lieu) of a server refresh, to provide a flexible core system for running even mission-critical applications.
“The way that business is operating IT is changing, especially because of virtualization and the cloud. It’s moving away from the traditional three-tier model of compute, virtualization, and storage,” says Chad Dunn, vice president of product management for VMware HCI products at Dell EMC. “By adopting the all-in-one model of a hyper-converged infrastructure, IT is able to free resources and realize cost savings for an increased focus on innovation and meeting business needs.”
