14 Oct Why choosing hyperconvergence for your business

Hyperconvergence or hyperconverged infrastructure is a data center infrastructure that embraces the principles, costs, and benefits of cloud computing and is essential to simplify the work of small and medium  companies. Hyperconvergence consolidates computeing, storage, networking, hypervisor, data protection, replication, disaster recovery, global management, and other business capabilities on consumer server hardware and helps small and midsize enterprises to simplify IT complexity, to realize digital transformation and promote agility, innovation and business value.

This innovative infrastructure converges the entire mass of the data center, including computeing, storage, network storage, and virtualization. The traditional, complex and expensive infrastructure is replaced by a platform running on standard turnkey servers that allows companies to start small and scale one node at a time. The software running on each server node distributes all operational functions across the cluster for superior performance and resiliency.

What can hyperconvergence do?

Today companies are struggling to manage data centers with disparate legacy systems, distributed data, IT workers in place, constant demand for new services, and increased pressure to move to the cloud. Hyperconvergence can help your business address these challenges and reduce risk, increase productivity, and improve flexibility, scalability and availability.

Hyperconverged infrastructure is an easy way to modernize technology and it also provides a central point of administration, allowing you to manage hypervisor, archiving, backup, replication and disaster recovery activities from a single control panel.

The notion of convergence originated initially as a means to address the challenges of heterogeneity. At the beginning, a single vendor combined systems and software from different vendors into a single preconfigured set of equipment and tools that was sold as a package. This was known as converged infrastructure. Then, they took one step further to design and manufacture their own line of prepackaged and highly integrated computing, storage and networking devices for data center. It was an evolutionary step now called hyperconverged infrastructure.

Hyperconverged infrastructures are possible thanks to a combination of virtualization technology and unified management. Virtualization allows you to treat computeing, storage and network resources as grouped resources. Unified management allows all those assets to be analyzed, organized into groups, divided by performance levels and then delivered seamlessly and regardless of where they physically are. Today, the combination of virtualized hardware and associated management tools is often treated as a standalone appliance that can function as a single complete subsystem in the data center or be combined with other appliances to easily create a distribution hyperconverged infrastructure.

The robustness, scalability and flexibility between hyperconverged software vendor platforms are different: that is the reason why an expert advice will help you choose a solution that will allow you to meet new business needs and growing workload demands while optimizing costs. and investments.

What are the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure?

In addition to containing less physical equipment, hyperconvergence provides a number of important benefits to IT environment and to business as a whole. The benefits of moving from traditional infrastructure to the simplicity of hyperconvergence are resumed into lower costs, better and consistent performance, a smaller data center, greater efficiency and productivity in the IT team, and maximized infrastructure ROI. Let’s better define the advantages of hyperconvergence:

• Software-defined archiving

Archiving in a hyperconverged infrastructure is software defined. The storage nodes act as a highly reliable and redundant storage pool. If one knot breaks, the rest will remain unaffected. This resilience is critical to ensure connectivity and uptime.

• Agility

In a hyperconverged infrastructure, the workloads all fit into the same administrative space. This makes it easy to migrate workloads from one location to another.

• Scalability

Thanks to the node-based architecture, it is very easy to scale your hyperconverged data center. Simply add or subtract nodes to meet the resource demand. Of course, you also need to add and subtract storage space easily.

• Data protection

Hyperconverged infrastructure for IT offers the ability to easily restore data. As the activity of cybercriminals increases and businesses of all sizes become at risk of attack, hyperconvergence incorporates elements of disaster recovery and backup into your infrastructure.

• Cost efficiency

Hyperconvergence offers a business model accessible to any IT department. Since there is less equipment to purchase, maintain and support, the recurring costs to support a hyperconverged data center are lower.

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