What Is Converged Infrastructure?
Many clients we work with are deploying or are planning to deploy converged infrastructure solutions. Converged storage architecture combines data storage and computing into a single entity – as opposed to traditional IT models in which computation and data storage take place in separate computer equipment.
Converged Infrastructure solutions have been available for several years, though they have not been widely used until recently. Many IT analysts, however, are now predicting that converged infrastructure usage will grow by more than than 50% in 2015.
Converged Infrastructure provides a simpler and faster method of providing IT infrastructure. Converged Infrastructure can also dramatically simplify and minimize the time to value of IT infrastructure investments.
Typical Uses of Converged Infrastructure:
- General-purpose workloads.
These require both high availability and high serviceability for standardized workloads.
- General-purpose workloads outside main data center.
Examples of these would be remote office, offsite teaching centers, and temporary medical or disaster facilities.
- Optimized infrastructure for standard application services.
Examples of this scenario would include Oracle database, VDI, HADOOP, etc.
- Large scale leveraging of next generation infrastructure for massive scalability.
There is not one single Converged Infrastructure architecture that meets all application needs. Successfully transitioning to Converged Infrastructure demands the expertise of highly experienced IT professionals. High availability Converged Infrastructure client-server applications also demand best-of-breed hardware components.
If your business is considering migrating to a Converged Infrastructure system – whether it is for general purposes, remote office capability, or standard application services- you can trust the IT professionals at Intrepid IT. We can show you how Converged Infrastructure can offer you a simpler and faster IT infrastructure.
We will help you understand the differences between available CI systems – and help you carefully plan the architecture that will offer the best Converged Infrastructure options for your unique needs.
