How Converged Infrastructure Introduces New Levels of Integration with the Cloud

Introduces new levels of integration with cloud and the hypervisor: As long as your converged infrastructure is tightly integrated with your hypervisor, you can control the underlying set of resources. Furthermore, this level of convergence opens up a new level of API integration. With an open API architecture and a lot of intelligence in the software, new kinds of convergence technologies can integrate with OpenStack, CloudStack, Hyper-V, IBM, vCenter, vCAC, VVOLs, VAAI, S3 and so on. This takes the conversation around converged infrastructure to a whole new level by combining the functionality of compute, storage and networking and converging them on a single device through intelligent software and powerful hardware components.

Creates new levels of agility and resiliency for your business: Scaling into the cloud is critical to staying competitive in today’s market. Converged infrastructure creates powerful policies that can allow for the extension of the modern data center into the cloud. This is done through the control of resources and by allowing a truly agile user ecosystem. By deploying a converged infrastructure, you’re actually creating a fluid system capable of better management, visibility, resource control and cloud extension. On that same note, you’re also improving resiliency for the business. Converged infrastructure allows you to interconnect various data center and cloud points to load balance users and resources. This also allows your business to create powerful disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.

Creates an agile business and an agile user: A big piece of converged infrastructure is the intelligent control of critical resources, enabling you to deliver applications, push down entire desktops and create a much more agile business. Your underlying converged infrastructure is capable of adapting to the pace of the industry by innovating via hardware and software controls. This means that you can dynamically provision and de-provision resources as needed—these processes can even be automated. By integrating with cloud and empowering the business, converged infrastructure introduces new kinds of economics for the modern data center. This means smaller footprints in the data center, better controls around physical resources and improved elasticity around workload deployment.