It’s called data center in a box, unified computing and dynamic computing. Cisco, our technology partner, calls its offering Unified Computing System (UCS), which is what Peak 10 has standardized on for its data centers. Whatever you call it, converged infrastructure (CI) is getting bigger by the day. The global CI market is expected to grow to nearly $34 billion by 2019, a CAGR of 24.1 percent.

1. Advantages of Converged Infrastructures
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2. It’s called “data center in a box”, unified
computing and dynamic computing.
Cisco, our technology partner, calls its offering
Unified Computing System (UCS), which is what Peak 10
has standardized on for its data centers.
Whatever you call it, converged infrastructure (CI) is getting
bigger by the day. The global CI market is expected to grow to
nearly $34 billion by 2019, a CAGR of 24.1 percent.
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3. All packaged together as an appliance
rather than independent technologies, a
converged infrastructure includes servers,
data storage, networking equipment,
software for infrastructure management,
automation and orchestration
— something like a plug-and-play data center.
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4. CI is often used as a platform
for private, hybrid and public
cloud computing services …
Peak 10’s many infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) cloud offerings, for example.
Interesting in knowing why it is winning so
much attention? Read on.
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5. Converged infrastructure market solutions are standard,
high-density, cost-effective, energy-efficient all-in-one IT
1 solutions that can be dropped into your data center
running in days, not weeks.
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6. 2
CI breaks
down silos by flattening data
center architectures
so compute, networking and
storage are abstracted from the
CPUs, racks, cabling, controllers
and switches.
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7. 3
CI helps achieve a number of
critical business goals
including centralizing IT resource
management, consolidating systems,
increasing resource-utilization rates,
and lowering costs.
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8. 4
Pools of computers, storage
and networking resources in a
CI can be shared
by multiple applications and managed in a collective
manner using policy-driven processes.
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9. CI immediately consolidates
and virtualizes your workloads,
5
which can give
you flexibility to move
resources from one
virtual machine to another.
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10. Freed by CI from bolting together
systems piece by piece, the IT
team can deliver business value,
6 advancing from
mechanic to driver.
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11. Gain speed and agility.
7 Virtualize the workload
instead of the server.
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12. CI provides bandwidth to small
and midsized enterprises’
8 limited IT staffs that serve demanding constituents who
need new services and applications on a regular basis.
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13. A backup and
recovery solution
that comes
pretested and
pre-integrated
with your converged
infrastructure is a huge
advantage when it
comes to preventing
data loss.
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14. Pretested and pre-integrated
disaster recovery and
avoidance solutions, failover
and failback processes
10 can be automated tasks that
mitigate risk and reduce costs.
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15. 11
A release certification
matrix API for your CI
will validate all of the
patches, maintenance
and upgrades of
all of the product’s
components throughout
its lifecycle.
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16. 12
Streamlining manual
and complex processes
into automated functions
allows the business to
focus on new initiatives
and application delivery,
and not the infrastructure
that supports them.
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17. The ability to pool IT resources, automate resource
provisioning and quickly scale capacity up and down
to meet the needs of dynamic computing workloads
13 make CI well suited
for cloud deployments.
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18. Find out how we can help you with your
Infrastructure needs and contact one of
our Solution Engineers today.
Call us today: 866.473.2510
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