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CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURES
By Neil Staley, Product
Marketing Executive, Mayflex
www.mayflex.com
Converged infrastructures allow for an agile network
that’s quickly scalable to create larger, more efficient
and effective solutions offering synergy
The compute world is moving at pace, expanding its reach
ever deeper into everything we do. With this expansion
comes the merging and blurring of the lines, where one
system ends and another starts, and in this comes the
coining of phrases like converged infrastructures.
From one sector to another the term has different
meanings, but within the data centre industry converged
infrastructure is the packaging of storage, software and
switching, as well as connectivity to produce a concise set
of IT resources that provide increased efficiency. This allows
IT to deliver a quickly scalable network. However, the payoff
is that it’s fixed and ridged. It’s finite and can, if a business
grows out of resources deployed or changes direction,
potentially restrict growth due to the fixed infrastructure.
Hyper-converged solutions
Then there are hyper-converged solutions that break
through any ceilings and give ultimate flexibility, but are
designed and deployed in a completely different structure.
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