Scale-out virtualised workload platforms that reduce datacentre footprint and costs by up to 75%, liberating opex and capex budgets for other business enablement projects.
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a combination of servers and storage in a distributed infrastructure platform with intelligent software to create flexible building blocks that replace legacy multi-tiered infrastructure consisting of separate servers, storage networks and storage arrays. There are a range of use cases, and it is now becoming the de facto standard for on-premises infrastructure architecture. Its benefits however go beyond on-premises, today enabling true cloud acceleration and the adoption of best practice principles for hybrid models.
As the term suggests, HCI eliminates multiple infrastructure elements and introduces simplicity and standardisation to an otherwise complex environment. Its virtualised nature, automation and workload mobility capabilities make migration from legacy platforms a very simple process. Hundreds of virtual machines can be moved in a single day and racks upon racks of legacy infrastructure rendered obsolete. Using HCI, we have helped large organisations reduce their datacentre footprints by up to 75% and, as a result, reduce cost, complexity and risk, as well as accelerated cloud migration programs.
Hyperconverged infrastructure modernises, simplifies and rationalises compute, storage and network infrastructure. It reduces datacentre footprint and management overhead, contributing to a platform that can be 75% less costly than traditional systems. Complex interdependencies and interoperability issues are eliminated, and commodity hardware exploited with remarkable results for your business’s IT services as well as its bottom line.
HCI rationalises so much of traditional workload infrastructure, making things simple, elegant and smaller. No more physical computing beasts hosting oversized virtual machines at ratios that make no economic sense. No more storage area networks. No more storage arrays, LUNs, RAID sets or replication infrastructure. A complete datacentre in a box. Hugely scalable, highly-performant management tools for the modern era, and support to die for. Simple, effective, brilliant.
Hyperconverged infrastructure is a cluster of 86 machines inter-operating with each other in a multi-node cluster. Automated rightsizing brings cost and resource efficiencies and the intelligence to map demand with virtual locality. Workloads can dynamically move to where SLA delivery can be best met. The real-time insights provided to resource consumption, workload utilisation and cost also mean workload placement becomes an easy decision, whether that determines to be on-premises or in the public cloud. You place workloads where the balance of economic and service sense meets.
Many of our customers have made the mistake of taking a cloud-now strategy for everything. Equally as many have made the mistake of taking the cloud-never approach. Generally accepted practice is to place workloads where it makes most sense, based upon cost, risk and service. Some systems make sense to stay where they are, some make sense to move, and some make sense to be reinvented. Either way, a hybrid approach is a sensible one and sometimes making the first move is the hardest.
HCI allows you to rationalise what you have, where you have it. In doing so, you massively reduce the cost of capital and operational expenditure. This ensures what you have is being done at the lowest cost but additionally releases budget and provides insights for you to determine which ones to move, and to where. Better still, the best HCI platforms can be run on and off premises, giving you a single management plane for it all. HCI is a cloud enabler, and probably the best first step to take.
HCI helps accelerate VDI deployments by up to 8x and lower TCO by 50% when compared to traditional approaches. Hyperconverged infrastructure integrates compute, virtualisation, storage, networking and security. This allows you to scale nodes instead of contrasting hardware devices. Smart tooling then helps enhance the function and security of networks. It provides secure access to applications, desktops and data for your end-user, all from a single infrastructure stack secured at your datacentre or in the cloud. Desktop logins can be reduced from minutes to seconds. Virtual desktop deployment times are reduced from hours to minutes.
A robust disaster recovery plan is essential for any organisation. However, traditional models mean a duplication of expense or compromise to services. Using HCI, complete datacentre infrastructures can be recreated in a fraction of the footprint and cost. Existing workloads can also be examined and right sized when DR is invoked, further reducing the cost of investment.
DR HCI platforms can be scaled with ease and deployed within your own physical datacentre or in the public cloud. Bringing huge versatility, global reach and significant economies to a complex problem. Better still, they can service an aggregated demand across your entire organisation. Smaller, simpler, cheaper, but better.
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