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It’s called data center 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.
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Advantages of Converged Infrastructures
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It’s called “data center 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.
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All packaged together as an appliance rather than independent technologies, a converged infrastructure includes servers, data storage, networking equipment, software for infrastructure management, automation and orchestration
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CI is often used 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.
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1 running in days, not weeks.
Converged infrastructure market solutions are standard, high-density, cost-effective, energy-efficient all-in-one IT
solutions that can be dropped into your data center
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CI breaks down silos by flattening data
center architectures so compute, networking and
storage are abstracted from the CPUs, racks, cabling, controllers
and switches.
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CI helps achieve a number of critical business goals
including centralizing IT resource management, consolidating systems, increasing resource-utilization rates,
and lowering costs.
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4Pools of computers, storage
and networking resources in a CI can be shared
by multiple applications and managed in a collective manner using policy-driven processes.
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5which can give
you flexibility to move resources from one
virtual machine to another.
CI immediately consolidates and virtualizes your workloads,
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6 advancing from mechanic to driver.
Freed by CI from bolting together systems piece by piece, the IT team can deliver business value,
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7 Virtualize the workload instead of the server.
Gain speed and agility.
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8 limited IT staffs that serve demanding constituents who need new services and applications on a regular basis.
CI provides bandwidth to small and midsized enterprises’
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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.
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10 can be automated tasks that mitigate risk and reduce costs.
Pretested and pre-integrated disaster recovery and avoidance solutions, failover and failback processes
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11all of the product’s
components throughout its lifecycle.
A release certification matrix API for your CI will validate all of the
patches, maintenance and upgrades of
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12focus on new initiatives
and application delivery,
Streamlining manual and complex processes
into automated functions allows the business to
and not the infrastructure that supports them.
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13 make CI well suited for cloud deployments.
The ability to pool IT resources, automate resource provisioning and quickly scale capacity up and down to meet the needs of dynamic computing workloads
Find out how we can help you with your Infrastructure needs and contact one of
our Solution Engineers today.
Call us today: 866.473.2510
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