5 areas HCIS vendors must address to gain more acceptance
Hyper-converged integrated systems (HCIS) have become the talk of the town in the recent days. It is a software-centric architecture which tightly integrates computing, storage, virtualization, networking resources and other technologies from scratch in a commodity hardware box which is supported by a single vendor.
Hyper-convergence integrated systems (HCIS) have already passed the phase where they had to deal with product / system simplicity. The next thing that will be required to be addressed is the evolving complexity in the ecosystem.
HCIS areas to address
The major areas that should be addressed by HCIS vendors for infrastructure and operations in order to achieve acceptance and fulfil their claims of simplifying larger enterprise infrastructure are:
- Architectural design
A better architectural design will lead to increased scalability, better system code and performance, increased data communications, quicker availability and recovery. The user interface would have to be made better, along with system life cycle, modularity, consolidation and APIs. The data and storage protection and optimization, and orchestration would need more attention.
- Business Process
Business process improvement includes improving provisioning and service delivery, overall quality, adaptability, volume and velocity, integrity, predictability, versioning, release management and change management.
- Organizational Development
This includes development / test / operation / production, HR skills, teamwork and coordination, economics, measurement, management and quality assurance.
- Resource Management and Utilization
The areas included here are modularity, disaggregation, composability, resource reclamation, repurposing, capacity utilization and prediction, geographic extensiveness, performance and volume elasticity, resource stress and changeability, latency and responsiveness and usage-driven costs.
- Supply Chain and Vendor Relationships
Another area of improvement is in supply chain and vendor relationships, which include dependability, supportability, affordability, roadmap strategy, technology competitiveness, consistency in supply chain, partner relationships and value propositions.
Recommendations for HCIS vendors
HCIS vendors sometimes suggest an appliance approach as a simplified solution for some specific use cases. They should keep in mind that industry leaders plan for greater levels of complexity than what is addressed by their hardware and software. To be successful in the future and also in the current scenario, HCIS vendors should address all the above mentioned areas.
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