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Hyper-converged infrastructure: supporting the next-generation data center

Move forward with confidence in a software-defined world

Published November 2017

The digital transformation of the past decade has enabled businesses to reach new markets and deliver products and services in exciting new ways. But these opportunities have also come with challenges for IT, including stretched resources, slow response times, and flat or declining budgets.

Faced with the need for speed, flexibility, and high performance, many IT organisations turned to virtualisation to help relieve the burden. It was a great start—but today, the data center must evolve even further so that IT can deliver on business requirements.

In fact, the data center needs to change at the infrastructure level. Why? Because surface fixes simply aren’t enough. Costs are spiraling out of control, even as performance and service delivery lags behind.