Converged & Hyper-converged Solutions
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How Converged (CI) and Hyper-converged (HCI) infrastructures can simplify your data center
CONVERGED (CI)
The Converged Infrastructure (CI) revolutionizes the data center by packaging all the components of a traditional 3-tier architecture together; server, storage, and network. This simplifies design, installation and management and greatly reduces the time previously required for data center projects.
HYPER-CONVERGED (HCI)
Hyper-converged Infrastructures (HCIs) have additional benefits compared to CIs. Instead of being hardware based and relying on building blocks, HCIs are software based, incorporate an additional virtualization layer, and scale in small nodes which include server, storage, and networking components, all in one chassis. The HCI software unifies the system and makes it simple to assign compute, memory and storage resources per virtual machine based on the needs of your application. This is a simpler and more flexible way for organizations to scale and support their data center infrastructures.
Depending on your selected vendor, you may simply add HCI software to the hardware of your choice, or you could a single vendor solution and deploy it all at once opting for hardware already configured and optimized with the HCI software.
Common Data Center Challenges
Are you experiencing any of the following issues in your data center?
Complex, Time Consuming Data Center Management
Siloed Data Center Components
Lack of Data Center Scalability and Elasticity
CI and HCI Partner Solutions and Recommendations
While we have experience in multiple solutions, below is our go-to tech stack for converged and hyper-converged infrastructures.
Nutanix Hyper-converged (HCI) Solutions
Nutanix Hyper-converged Infrastructure (AOS)
Intelligent hyper-converged Infrastructure for the cloud era.
Cisco Hyper-converged (HCI) Solutions
Cisco Converged (CI) Solutions
PureStack
Maximum performance for cloud-like experiences and economics from Cisco and Pure.
How a CI or HCI can Benefit Your Data Center.
Single-system Approach
Centralized Management
Visibility across Data Center ecosystem
Task Automation
Business Agility
Easily Connect to the Cloud
Enhance Edge Computing
Simplification of Application Scalability
Upgrade to a Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI)
Don't let your data center infrastructure hold you back! Experience more efficient, cost-effective IT Operations with HCI.
Not Sure if a CI or HCI is Right for You?
Find out why customers trust us to help them with their CI and HCI deployments.
CI and HCI Early Adopters
We understand the nuances of CI and HCI platforms and how they impact your environment. We'll whiteboard the transition process and walk you through every step of the process. We’ve been involved with these technologies since the beginning, so we know how to help you succeed.
Compute, Networking, and Storage Experts
We can help you understand how HCI fits into your existing architecture because we specialize in all the data center architectures. The right guidance can help you distinguish the benefits of a CI and HCI in your environment, allowing you to select the option that will help you accomplish your business goals.
Cutting Edge Products and Partnerships
We work with the best of the best in CI and HCI solutions. Our partners were among the first to release HCI solutions and we’ve got their arsenal of resources and technology solutions at our fingertips to help you get the results you are looking for.
Development Services
We have the tech expertise to build out node configurations for fast deployment. If there’s not an out-of-the-box offering that will work, we can customize configurations to ensure your CI or HCI meets the demands of your business now and in the future.
Looking for specific data center solutions?
Not only are we Converged Hyper-converged experts, but we specialize in providing our customers with a variety of superior data center solutions from today's most trusted technology manufacturers.
Optimize Your Data Center
Cloud Solutions
Embrace virtual machines, containers, and cloud applications to take your data center operations to the next level.
Build an elastic infrastructure to accommodate software-defined cloud solutions. Prepare your data center for high bandwidth demands and flexible data processing within hybrid environments.
Consistent Policy Configuration & Deployment
Data Center Networking
Optimize your data center operations to improve visibility and efficiency.
Simplify operations by automating your policy deployment to ensure consistent configurations and tighter security across your entire data center ecosystem.
Modernize Your Compute Environment.
Compute Solutions
The cloud is here. You need an automated compute platform that can scale your applications to the cloud.
Build your compute environment with the expertise and scalable tech that can carry your data center into the future. It’s time to optimize your data processing power to support cloud native applications and agile DevOps teams.
Protect Your Data.
Data Storage
Find the data storage solutions you need to support your business goals.
Use your storage space more efficiently with innovative storage technology. As hybrid and multi-cloud environments evolve, you need a storage solution that's flexible and secure enough to support data growth anytime, anywhere.
Prepare, Defend, Recover.
Data Protection
Design your data center with threat mitigation and incident response in mind.
Create redundancies in your data protection protocols to avoid business disruption. Having the right expertise and tech on your side can help you build a resilient business continuity plan and protect your data.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I use a converged or hyperconverged infrastructure?
To determine which one is a better fit for you, start by considering your need for flexibility, scalability, and your current IT skills. CI solutions are prepackaged, but also allow you to add specific capacity to pinpoint bottlenecks. For example, you can add lots of CPU and memory without additional storage. Or you can grow your storage capacity without adding CPU or memory. Converged Infrastructure can be a great fit for companies that are capable and accustomed to managing a traditional 3-tier architecture and simply want to accelerate the design and deployment phases while maximizing flexibility.
If you don’t foresee tremendous growth in your application portfolio, HC may be a fantastic option for you. HCI solutions come prepackaged with software including a hypervisor and virtualized management. It is very flexible as long as you are okay with scaling by nodes which must contain at least some compute, memory and storage. The new resources are automatically added to your existing pools when you deploy them, so it is a much faster deployment model. You should consider HCI if you need a lot of elasticity.
CI and HCI are not mutually exclusive. An HCI solution may compliment a CI if you have large data storage needs, but want a more nimble solution for DevOps or rapidly scaling applications. HCI is just an alternative approach way to manage your data center and while it has advantages, it is not necessarily the ‘superior’ option.
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