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How convergence can deliver a cost effective SMB data centre

Integrated servers, storage and virtualization.

Published November 2014

With greater demands on IT departments of every sized business to meet growing data and application needs, infrastructure virtualization has taken on a whole new level of importance. Key to building an optimal business experience,

virtualization can enable critical applications to draw from a shared pool of storage and compute resources as needed. If done correctly, it can also allow an enterprise to easily scale up to meet increasing demands. Virtualization is the technology most-often used to provide high availability for critical applications, allowing automatic failover to other virtual hosts in the event of a system failure. Although virtualization can bring many benefits, it can also present new challenges to an organization’s IT infrastructure and operations.