Advantages of Converged Infrastructures

Advantages of Converged Infrastructures

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  Advantages of ConvergedInfrastructures September slideshare I T I N F R AS T R U C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  It’s called “datacenter in a box”, unified computing and dynamic computing. Cisco, our technology partner, calls its offering Unified Computing System (UCS), which is what Peak 10 has standardized on for its data centers. Whatever you call it, converged infrastructure (CI) is getting bigger by the day. The global CI market is expected to grow to nearly $34 billion by 2019, a CAGR of 24.1 percent. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  All packaged togetheras an appliance rather than independent technologies, a converged infrastructure includes servers, data storage, networking equipment, software for infrastructure management, automation and orchestration — something like a plug-and-play data center. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  CI is oftenused as a platform for private, hybrid and public cloud computing services … Peak 10’s many infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud offerings, for example. Interesting in knowing why it is winning so much attention? Read on. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  Converged infrastructure marketsolutions are standard, high-density, cost-effective, energy-efficient all-in-one IT 1 solutions that can be dropped into your data center running in days, not weeks. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  2 CI breaks down silos by flattening data center architectures so compute, networking and storage are abstracted from the CPUs, racks, cabling, controllers and switches. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  3 CI helpsachieve a number of critical business goals including centralizing IT resource management, consolidating systems, increasing resource-utilization rates, and lowering costs. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  4 Pools ofcomputers, storage and networking resources in a CI can be shared by multiple applications and managed in a collective manner using policy-driven processes. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  CI immediately consolidates and virtualizes your workloads, 5 which can give you flexibility to move resources from one virtual machine to another. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  Freed by CIfrom bolting together systems piece by piece, the IT team can deliver business value, 6 advancing from mechanic to driver. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  Gain speed andagility. 7 Virtualize the workload instead of the server. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  CI provides bandwidthto small and midsized enterprises’ 8 limited IT staffs that serve demanding constituents who need new services and applications on a regular basis. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  A backup and recovery solution that comes pretested and pre-integrated with your converged infrastructure is a huge advantage when it comes to preventing data loss. 9 I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  Pretested and pre-integrated disaster recovery and avoidance solutions, failover and failback processes 10 can be automated tasks that mitigate risk and reduce costs. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  11 A releasecertification matrix API for your CI will validate all of the patches, maintenance and upgrades of all of the product’s components throughout its lifecycle. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  12 Streamlining manual and complex processes into automated functions allows the business to focus on new initiatives and application delivery, and not the infrastructure that supports them. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  The ability topool IT resources, automate resource provisioning and quickly scale capacity up and down to meet the needs of dynamic computing workloads 13 make CI well suited for cloud deployments. I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0
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  Find out howwe can help you with your Infrastructure needs and contact one of our Solution Engineers today. Call us today: 866.473.2510 I T I N F R ASTRU C T U R E | C LO U D | M A N AGED SERV I C E S 1 . 8 6 6 . 4 7 3 . 2 5 1 0