Converged Infrastructure

ETI offers a Cloud-based Converged Infrastructure solution that centralizes the management of IT resources, consolidates systems, increases resource utilization rates, and lowers total cost of ownership.
ETI’s Converged Infrastructure solution creates pools of computers, storage and networking resources that can be shared by multiple applications and managed in a collective manner using policy driven processes.

Converged Infrastructure packages multiple information technology components into a single, optimized computing solution. Components of a converged infrastructure solution include servers, data storage, networking, and software for IT infrastructure management, automation and orchestration.

Converged Infrastructure
IT managers are likely to be in agreement that too much time and too many resources are spent maintaining the separate hardware and software components of their IT system.

According to IDC, companies spend roughly 70 percent of their annual IT budgets on just keeping their systems running. Converged Infrastructure is the answer to a sprawling IT ecosystem that is increasingly complex, difficult to maintain interconnected, and difficult to maintain interoperability.

Converged Infrastructure is a pre-built and pre-integrated system, featuring a simplified platform and centralized management. A pre-integrated system can mean less time spent to maintain your current IT system, and reduced operational expenses associated with time-consuming maintenance; freeing up your IT staff to focus on your business strategy, new projects, and innovation.

Converged Infrastructure can make for a more reliable IT infrastructure, and reduced downtime of the overall IT system. The evolution of Converged Infrastructure allows businesses to do less with more by way of commonplace or “commodity” activities and spend more time and energy enabling the business to capitalize on their information systems.

Benefits of Converged Infrastructure

THE NEW STACK

Converged Infrastructure

Simplicity

Many of the benefits of CI stem from the simplicity and standardization of working with an integrated platform rather than multiple technology stacks.

Performance

CI can dramatically improve both utilization and reliability of infrastructure. In a highly virtualized environment, server utilization may already be high. CI extends this efficiency to storage and network port utilization and enables better performance optimization of the overall infrastructure.

Scalability

Easier to expand or shrink available resources with changing workloads and the peaks and valleys of business transaction volume.

Management

Virtualization

Storage

Network

Compute

Speed

Infrastructure can be deployed in record time.

Availability

Greater (sometimes near-perfect) reliability means higher availability of infrastructure, applications, and services. CI enables IT to meet its service-level agreements and the business to meet its performance promises to customers. CI has helped organizations make the leap to 24/7 business operation.

Staff

Requires less IT staff to op

Risk

Reduces operational risk through robust and comprehensive tools for infrastructure control, including security, plus automation to minimize human error. CI also reduces risk to business continuity through high availability and reliability, less disruptive upgrades, and a solid platform for disaster recovery.

Innovation

Facilitates business innovation in two powerful ways: One, it provides a simplified path to the cloud, where a business can experiment with and use a vast and growing array of innovative and specialized software and services. Two, when software developers have computing environments on demand, they can experiment more, prototype more, iterate with their business partners, and discover superior business solutions.

Cost

– Procurement
– Physical operations
– Infrastructure management
– Labor

When infrastructure is running out of steam. This may be due to technology obsolescence or the inability to continue driving down unit costs.

Interestingly, IDC found that infrastructures with high levels of server virtualization can still see their costs creep up as the difficulty of overall integration and administration grows. The countermeasure can be deploying Converged Infrastructure.

CI lowers cost
Better utilization of resources lowers the unit cost of infrastructure, and simplification lowers the labor and process costs of infrastructure management.

CI raises performance
Improved availability, reliability, and speed of infrastructure deployment boost service levels and business performance.

CI lowers business risk
Greater reliability means less business downtime. Standard and integrated infrastructure simplifies security and business continuity processes.

CI raises business agility
Rapid deployment and scalability of infrastructure enable responsiveness and faster time to market. With computing on demand, business and IT people can experiment more, prototype more, and innovate faster. Contact ETI to learn more about Converged Infrastructure.

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