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TECH TALK
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HCI CAUSING A STIR IN
THE ENTERPRISE
Ricky Pereira, Dell Enterprise Business Unit Manager
at Pinnacle, looks at the benefits of hyper-converged
infrastructure and what VxRail brings to the market.
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mart organisations are realising
the benefits of hyper-converged
infrastructure. Aligning IT with
business objectives has been top on the
CIO’s agenda for many years, and in an era
of disruption, it has become more crucial
than ever. In today’s dynamic digital world,
technology is also inexorably linked to the
products or services it empowers, but many
organisations are still not achieving their
digital goals.
The main reason for this is the sheer
complexity of modern IT enterprises.
Step in hyper-converged infrastructure
(HCI), the latest technology causing a stir
in the enterprise, promising the simplicity
and flexibility that onerous legacy systems
cannot. It promises operational efficiency,
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lowered costs and manageable scaling, as
its model combines all of the data centers’
critical components, such as storage,
networking, compute and backup, into pre-
packaged units which can be controlled and
managed by a single layer of software.
This is a complete turnaround from
traditional IT infrastructures that consisted
of proverbial technology silos, that needed
different people to manage networking,
storage, systems administration and
software. It’s no surprise then, that
forward-thinking enterprises are looking
to hyper-converged platforms to fulfil
their on-premises IT infrastructure
requirements, and as the technology
matures, more will follow suit. So, let’s
look at the benefits hype-convergence can
bring to organisations.
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COMPARED
TO LEGACY
INFRASTRUCTURE
AND INTEGRATED
SYSTEMS, HYPER-
CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE
IS FAR MORE
AFFORDABLE.
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