Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 23 | Page 18

LATEST INTELLIGENCE NFLEX: FULFILLING THE PROMISE OF CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE PRESENTED BY Executive summary Converged Infrastructure (CI) was full of promises. Some kept, and some never fully realized. Today, CI continues to provide the backbone to many data centers and provide a natural pathway to future hybrid cloud infrastructures. of technologies with industry-leading benchmarks in server and flash performance. Converged Infrastructure continues to grow and now maintains a large share of Tier 1 application deployments in the marketplace. Introduction Download whitepaper here Data center administrators have been successful with the complete flexibility of today’s CI solutions, but they are enamored with the promise of HCI simplicity. NFLEX fills the gap with a Converged Infrastructure solution designed to increase simplicity within a framework of flexibility, with the confidence of factory integration. Fujitsu and NetApp are working together to deliver premier Converged Infrastructure based on industry standard technology leadership and unparalleled innovation, taking advantage of over twenty years of successful co-innovation. NFLEX is built on a core 18 INTELLIGENTCIO NFLEX leverages the value of today’s Converged Infrastructure with the added promise of simplicity. Converged Infrastructure was designed with efficiency in mind, both from a technical standpoint as users looked to automate their IT processes across components. And, from a business standpoint, CI can deliver cost and manageability efficiency by driving expenses down thanks to greater utilization and decreased physical hardware needs. In addition, the evolution of virtualized environments controlled via a single console was intended to help drive management efficiency for CI. n www.intelligentcio.com