Creating Efficiency with Converged Infrastructure: How to Reduce Overall Space

Converged Infrastructure Enables Enterprise Scalability. With converged infrastructure (CI) you see the integration of core resources and delivery technologies. These are no longer segmented systems sitting in silos within your data center. Because of this tight integration, administrators can quickly deploy more infrastructure to support business use-cases. Most of all, this level of rapid scale helps organizations properly utilize resources as they are delivered to applications, desktops and users. We’ll touch on this later – but CI is deployed in efficient (validated) building blocks. You can effectively forecast your level of scale as your business needs grow.

Enabling Greater Amounts of Density. A great way to create better ROI and reduce space is to efficiently place more users on less gear. CI gives users this option by combining key resources into one management plane. With converged infrastructure – you create a mechanism which can host apps, desktops, and a variety of other use-related use-cases. This means you can support more users while still reducing your overall data center footprint. In working with CI, you’re not just placing more users onto an infrastructure. With VDI and virtualization, you’re removing legacy end-points and providing even better user experiences than before. Today’s CI architectures combine best-of-breed systems to handle more users, while still optimizing user experiences.

Reducing Deployment Risk and Size. Converged infrastructure is deployed in pre-validated blocks of architecture which are referenced and tested to work with a variety of deployment scenarios. This means that organizations are working with technologies that have been tested and verified to work in their specific use-case. This helps reduce deployment complexity, significantly lowers the risk of making a mistake, and ensuring that the piece of architecture you have not only deploys properly – but can also scale. Risk is the factor that often slows down critical deployments or puts the brakes on great IT projects. With CI, you mitigate that risk with validated designs for your specific IT and business needs. This means the environment is sized, configured, and oftentimes validated before it even goes in your ecosystem.

Saving on Data Center Real-Estate. When working with modern converged infrastructure solutions, you absolutely create new levels of scale and density; along with making the environment easier to deploy. An added benefit surrounds new IT initiatives around reducing data center footprints. CI allows you to remove legacy infrastructure to enable greater amounts of IT flexibility. Remember, with this reclaimed space, you’re capable of optimizing cooling requirements, power needs, and even management. Finally, CI can be deployed in a wide variety of sizes. This means you can support larger as well as smaller (branch) data center locations. Instead of just putting in some heterogenous gear at a branch location, smaller CI nodes can integrate with the overall infrastructure while still keeping the footprint small.