Converged Infrastructure Solutions

What is Converged Infrastructure?

Delivering resilient applications as-a-service via your internal LAN, internal WLAN, external WAN & to mobile/cellular devices requires “flattening” your IT architecture (see graphic below). The objectives of the “flattening process” are:

to replace all discrete switches with a single logical switch – giving you a resilient, automatable, and virtualized network across all IT resources
migrate all static servers to VMware vSphere 4.5 – giving you a cluster of resilient, automatable, & adaptive VMware hosts
migrate all discrete storage to an HP SAN – giving you a resilient, automatable, and virtualized storage pool

This project must be considered a “mission-critical” imperative for the reduction in IT labor costs - through automation - alone! There’s no other project with a faster ROI! “Converged Infrastructure” is a term HP coined to describe the perfect service-oriented architecture.

What is the business case for adopting Converged Infrastructure?

Your internal/external IT services consumers (customers) expect quality, functionality, security, no unplanned downtime, and the agility to change on-demand. That’s a tall order for ANY IT infrastructure! But we’re not done with consumer expectations! They also expect IT costs (chargebacks) to be in-line with the business cost envelope while ensuring tighter compliance amidst tougher regulations. And, they also demand rapid IT results – not weeks or months, but days, hours, or even minutes! A service-oriented architecture is up to the challenge. Call today.

HP’s Converged Infrastructure benefits?

By adopting an HP service-oriented ‘Converged Infrastructure’ you’ll inherit an IT department with:

amazing automation that dramatically reduces IT labor costs while accelerating IT service delivery and improving quality
unmatched security & regulatory compliance through virtualized firewalls & VMware security zones
zero unplanned downtime through redundant virtualized VMware hosts and cluster-in-box settings
unparalleled business agility through a single unified management interface