While public cloud adoption in on the increase, all the facts point to companies preferring a multi-cloud approach or using on-premises and hosted private clouds along with public clouds. Recent announcements by VMware, of support for vSphere in public clouds like Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud show that VMware is on a mission to provide the platform to make building multi-cloud seamless.
Forbes predicted that in 2019, 45% of enterprises would prioritise some sort of hybrid solution. While the workloads of small businesses may be lesser than that of enterprises, their smaller budgets see 61% preferring a multi-cloud strategy. By 2020, 78% of small businesses will fully adopt cloud computing — this is where businesses can consider a hybrid cloud approach.
As you develop hybrid cloud, the infrastructure remains critical. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has an increasingly important role to play here. VMware is the “secret sauce” behind HCI technology with unparalleled integration between virtual compute and storage.
Hyperconverged Infrastructure is fast becoming adopted by businesses in their digital transformation journey. HCI combines compute, storage and networking with software abstraction into a single system. This simplifies the IT ecosystem and reduces the complexity of data centres. The software-centric architecture of HCI means that it can quickly deploy, integrate and virtualise various facets of a data centre, ensuring high power performance while optimising resource usage. Using commodity x86 server components, VMware’s vSAN-powered HCI lowers storage costs by 40% or more compared to traditional servers and storage architectures.
Businesses considering evolving their IT infrastructure to save costs will find HCI to be the ideal answer. With its ability to be agile and simplify operations, problems faced with legacy infrastructures will be a thing of the past. From backup to storage, HCIs are able to get them done at a much faster pace, giving greater flexibility to employees and improving business efficiency. Most importantly, HCI in a data centre can be scaled for future applications.
To put it simply, there are five essential capabilities your business needs for an HCI software solution.
Simplicity – having a single integrated software stack with streamlined management to avoid any complications
Cost-saving on Ownership – being able to have enterprise performance without breaking the budget on enterprise cost.
Evolve without risk – eliminate the fear of running mission-critical apps. Boost confidence in the system.
Scalability – with technology always changing, it is important to have your data centre prepared for future applications.
Deployment Flexibility - business demands can change rapidly and being able to respond quickly and efficiently to these demands is key.
With HCI, you get faster app and infrastructure delivery, meaning you don’t require specialised skill sets. VMware can underpin HCI and your public clouds to allow for easy management and migration across all clouds. For information about VMware’s HCI’s powered by vSAN, click here.
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