FEATURE: IoT
Just as importantly, the simplicity in
the management plane of converged
infrastructure makes it easier for
business to innovate for themselves in a
number of powerful ways. For example,
if software developers have computing
environments on demand they can
experiment more, prototype more, and
discover other solutions. This all takes
time; when IT isn’t purely focused
on maintaining a platform it has
more room to experiment with other
innovations.
Let’s take a look at a simple example,
the “Information Generation” poses
two major challenges- the applications
needed by digitally native staff brought
up on Facebook and mobile apps,
and the ultimate consumers of your
businesses’ products and services that
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require real-time responsiveness to
demands issued over any and every
communications channel. It’s harder
for businesses, and IT teams, to keep
up, than ever before.
To address this, application developers
are making a shift to an agile mode
of operations, building, and killing off
or scaling up apps on a weekly basis
depending on how successful they are
at addressing specific business needs in
their test phases. This means IT, used
to months-long deployment cycles,
needs to up its game. The automation
and simplicity brought by converged
and hyper-converged infrastructure
goes a long way to enabling this,
depending on the type of application in
question, as a lot of the manual process
about allocating computer/storage/
CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE
IS BUILT ON THE
REALISATION THAT MOST
IT INFRASTRUCTURES
ARE BUILT ON A
CONSIDERABLE
PORTFOLIO OF LEGACY
APPLICATIONS
WHICH DELIVER THE
SAME – OR SIMILAR -
FUNCTIONALITY
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