Defrag Your Infrastructure
Remember the dreaded defrag tool from the days when notebook disk drives were slow and undersized? IT users spent countless hours overcoming storage capacity and performance limitations to work more productively.
Once large capacity notebook drives arrived, users bought the biggest drives they could afford to eliminate the drudgery and time spent managing capacity. Today most corporate users have no idea how large their drives are and they no longer despair watching colored blocks flit across their screens.
A similar revolution occurred with the introduction of flash solid state drives, or SSDs, for notebooks. Remember the flashing disk light on your PC or Mac?
That flashing light disappeared for SSD systems, along with the time spent waiting for machines to boot up and for applications to respond. Once SSDs became the norm in laptops, knowledge workers were freed up for more important work.
In the enterprise, storage limitations continue to ensnarl IT. Time spent managing traditional storage arrays requires deep expertise and lots of time. Proprietary hardware shelves, arcane storage area networks, and custom software stand in the way of time spent on applications.
A new approach "hyperconverges" scale-out storage with servers to simplify management and eliminate custom hardware. VMware vSAN is the leading product in the category helping IT eliminate unproductive work.
A new 451 Research survey shows hyperconverged users deploy applications more quickly with a consistent operational model that spans on-premises to the public cloud. It's a game-changer for companies adding cloud native applications to an already full IT agenda.
The Evaluator Group took a bottoms-up approach, comparing the steps to configure, manage, and monitor all-flash storage arrays with hyperconverged infrastructure powered by VMware vSAN. The results showed a stunning 58% reduction in operating costs.
For CIOs across the globe, it's time to defrag your infrastructure. A fully software-defined strategy provides investment protection for the hybrid cloud and cloud native applications. Put hyperconverged technology from VMware to work and step up your digital game.
SVP Product and Solutions Marketing at Nutanix
5 年Thanks for the note. You’re right...this isn’t meant to suggest HCI is for all environments. There remain compelling reasons for storage arrays, such as large capacity growth independent of compute. However, deployment speed and opex pressure do favor HCI and are driving powerful growth.
Changing the work/life concept to "Life then Work" is very effective.
5 年I'll agree that HCI is the future and certainly is a huge advantage, however to say that VSAN is the answer to all, um, no.? When they fix the issues with hybrid configs when you lose an SSD then they will be better.? Figure out the value of data locality and they will be in competition.? Leveraging the existing install base and adding the VSAN ability as a feature has given EMC/Dell the ability to gain market quickly, not to mention their partnerships to increase HCI footprint without doing anything in the VSAN realm, is really good business and looks good on the balance sheet but does not equate to best in breed.
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5 年insight from the visionary (dare I say Father?) of Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)...thanks Lee Caswell!