In the race to digitally transform, satisfy the demands of hybrid and remote workforces, and gain a competitive edge, businesses are expanding their IT infrastructures, migrating to multi-cloud environments and adding layers of specialized, separately managed resources and workloads. All of which places a heavy burden on IT to manage and consolidate a fractured infrastructure comprised of data centers and assorted hardware, software, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
As hyper-converged environments evolve into composable infrastructures to support virtual, physical and containerized workloads, CIOs have the flexibility to combine compute, data storage and networking into one framework on premises and in the cloud, while better controlling costs. Hyper-converged environments can be more flexible, manageable and scalable, without necessarily leaning on IT professionals for every technology decision.
This essential guide reports the latest as-a-service trends and developments in multi-cloud composable infrastructure and data storage. We also provide in-depth videos from hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) experts, who examine the many components of today’s data center, weigh HCI’s advantages and disadvantages, and recommend the right time to consolidate.
