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San Francisco, CA. McKesson has doubledits development environment and savedmillions. They managed to lessen theirpower consumption, lowered their networkcomplications, storage and power costs aswell as reduced data centre floor space. Thishas resulted in improved data growth andreduced deployment time.As discussed earlier, converged infrastructuresvirtualises the software domain by mode of avirtual machine manager or better known ashypervisor. The same goes to the physicalinfrastructures by act of implementingconverged networking and I/O virtualisation.Once the virtualised I/Os and networksare executed, they can be composed anddecomposed on demand. This eliminatesa large number of components needed forinfrastructure provisioning, scaling and evenfailover or clustering.I/O consolidation implies convergedtransport which means fewer cables andfewer switches to be installed onto thenetwork. Furthermore, with fewer movingphysical parts, fewer software tools andlicenses are required. Roughly 80 percent ofcurrent physical components can be reducedconsequently contributing to a decrease inoperational complexities. Overall, convergedinfrastructures introduce physical simplicitieswhich breeds operational efficiencies. Thisleads to reduced costs, efforts as well assimplifies complications in managing datacentres.What Is ConvergedInfrastructures And What It IsNotConverged infrastructures have become ademanding solution in this new globalised era.IT infrastructures are now the ultimate platformsto serve the operations of an organisation.Different solution providers might have namedit with different terms. For example, CISCOintroduced this solution as Unified Computing.However, the way how vendors whitewashtheir products would also sound promisingby labelling it as converged infrastructures.Several terms that one might come acrosswhile searching for these kind of solutionsare Heterogeneous Automation, ProductBundle or Pre-Integrated solutions. Thesesolutions could easily be scripted as runbookautomations. This doesn’t reducephysical complexities, or it may simplifyinstallations, but does not guaranteephysical or operational simplicities.ConclusionAll in all, converged infrastructures can recreatean entire environment to provideboth High-Availability as well as DisasterRecovery in mixed physical and virtualenvironments. It also helps eliminate theneed for complex clustering solutions andis an option for replacement of numerouspoint-products to simplify IT management. ■Reference1. HP Converged Infrastructure SolutionSecurity For HP BladeSystem Matrix, 4AA2-8444ENW Rev. 1, November 20092. HP Converged Infrastructure MaturityModel, 4AA1-3980ENW Rev. 3, November 20093. Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-025,ESC-TR-93-178, Key Practices of the CapabilityMaturity ModelSM, Version 1.1, February 19934. Converge Infrastructure,Ken Oestreich, 15 November 2010http://www.thectoforum.com/content/converged-infrastructure-05. 10 Best Practices for Managing a ConvergedNetwork, Leslie T. O’Neill, April 30, 2009http://www.focus.com/briefs/10-best-practicesmanaging-converged-network/6. IBM Business benefits of convergedcommunications, IBM Global TechnologyServices, October 20067. McKesson doubles its developmentenvironments and saves millions with HPCloudSystem Matrix, 4AA2-3804ENW, July 201123e-Security | Cyber Security Malaysia | Vol: 28-(Q3/2011)© CyberSecurity Malaysia 2011 - All Rights Reserved