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INTEllIGENT COMPUTING | BFSI
anshuman Rai
maildqindia@cybermedia.co.in

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Eases

IT Transformation for hybrid Cloud

Deploying HCI solutions reduces costs, simplifies deployment, improves

operational efficiencies and eases scaling for organizations of all types and sizes

hile “the cloud” is often considered a place, sets, drive to innovate and willingness to transform, con-
the reality is cloud is an operating model that tribute to an organization’s approach and will determine
leverages modern technology to implement if and when IT management teams move from traditional
W it. Adapting to this new model requires siloed organizational structures to infrastructure manage-
transformation of both technology and IT operations. A ment and then cloud services management teams.
2016 State of IT Transformation survey conducted by
Dell EMC and VMware found that, although the majority hCI SySTEMS aCCElEraTE IT TraNSfOrMaTION
of respondents have been considering moving to a cloud One of the first steps toward an organization’s transfor-
model since 2010, 90% are still in evaluation or proof of mation journey – and their journey to a hybrid cloud op-
concept mode for hybrid cloud six years later. Why is it erating model - is to simplify infrastructure deployment
taking so long? and management by introducing hyper-converged infra-
When I talk with customers about why their hybrid structure (HCI) into the environment. HCI solutions that
cloud initiatives are slowed, they tell me IT transformation collapse traditional three-tier infrastructure by natively
requires a great deal of planning, evaluation, re-organiza- integrating compute, storage, networking, virtualization,
tion and modernization of infrastructure technologies and management and data services significantly reduce IT ad-
applications. Every organization approaches IT transfor- ministrative tasks and create the foundation for a modern
mation at a different pace, and not every organization will IT infrastructure.
want to deploy a full cloud service delivery model now or Adoption of HCI solutions has increased rapidly over
even in the future. Multiple factors, including costs, skill the past few years. According to 451 Research, more

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