Simplify And Accelerate Your Infrastructure With Hyperconvergence

The core infrastructure of enterprises and service providers has become successively more virtualized. However, supporting technologies have failed to keep pace in key places, particularly in the ease of system and storage management and ease with which you can scale the infrastructure as workloads increase. As a result, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are wasting valuable time on the tedious minutia of system management instead of focusing on higher-level business technology (BT) activities. Your BT agenda demands simpler, more flexible infrastructure; hyperconverged systems can help. Hyperconverged systems combine compute and storage infrastructure with software that facilitates the rapid manipulation of underlying resources — usually automatically. Those who wish to build infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) can greatly simplify the way that they build, manage, and maintain such services. This report defines the attributes of the current wave of hyperconverged systems and provides practitioners with pragmatic guidance on when to implement them. We also provide I&O pros with a brief survey of their current options — a group that is sure to grow quickly.