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Converged Infrastructure combines several traditionally siloed IT components into a single optimized solution. By converging servers, data storage, networking equipment and software, Converged Infrastructure solutions provide a scalable and more cost efficient way to quickly deploy a more simplified IT infrastructure.
Characteristics of a Converged Infrastructure include:
Converged Infrastructure platforms deliver quantifiable benefits to an organization, including:
Convergence is a cultural change, not just a technical one. A few key guidelines will help you smooth the way:
When moving toward a Converged Infrastructure solution, here are some important considerations:
These solutions are completely integrated and sold as a completely integrated IT offering, but they are comprised of the following technologies:
Typically large modular core switches
Blade servers
Hypervisor and management software
Network attached storage
This unified approach to IT infrastructure heralds the convergence of network and compute layers, which simplifies data center manageability and improves flexibility and utilization. It also allows IT to focus more on delivering services to end users, and less on how to piece together disparate IT components and make them work together.
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