Solutions Guide Autumn 18

Increase Your Data Centre Agility with HCI.
For decades, evolution in the data
centre moved at a predictable
pace, with incremental progress in
accordance with Moore’s Law. Every
year, processors went faster, drive
capacity grew larger (and cheaper),
and the network got faster and a little
more stable. While always improving
in terms of performance, the siloed
nature of data centre resources, with
one set of resources “walled off”
from others, meant there was a lot of
redundancy and a good deal of idled
resources at any given time.
Fast forward to 2018, and the data
centre is undergoing a revolution as
hyperconverged infrastructure’s (HCI’s)
cloudlike economics, scale, and ease
of use win more converts every day.
Unlike traditional three-tier
architecture, hyperconverged unites
compute, storage, and networking
along with control software in a single
appliance or node – all pretested,
prevalidated, and manufactured
by a single vendor or partnership
of vendors. That means full system
control from a single pane of glass,
even as you scale out with additional
nodes within the data centre.
And the advantages offered by
hyperconverged architecture don’t
stop there. Companies moving to
hyperconverged can expect to enjoy
lower CAPEX due to lower upfront
infrastructure costs, lower OPEX from
reductions in operational costs and
personnel, and faster time-to-value
for their investment.
Speaking of personnel requirements,
hyperconverged architecture does
away with the need for siloed groups
of resource engineers for compute,
storage, and networking. All of these
are administered through a single
pane of glass, meaning members of
today’s generation of IT generalists
can readily oversee system activities.
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