Many large organizations have line of business (LOB) or intra-company departments looking for simpler and more cost-effective ways to meet their IT demands.
LOBs exist as a subset of a larger company, existing as an island within a larger entity and have to budget for their own IT infrastructures. The costs associated with these systems are often too high and unpredictable. Sometimes LOBs may purchase their IT-as-a-Service from the larger corporation and again the costs can be high and unpredictable. LOBs, for example, ERP systems are usually customer-facing and essential to the business and therefore, performance and availability are very important.
Where can LOBs find enterprise-ready IT solutions purpose-built for specific applications without a lot of IT overhead? Our answer is hyper-convergence. A hyper-converged system is self-contained, well suited and right-sized for line of business operations. The hyper-converged system will fit in well within the larger IT scheme of the entire corporation.
The pre-built platform optimizes workloads to keep up with performance requirements and alleviate downtime and outages which is extremely important for customer-facing applications. Hyper-converged systems are self-contained appliances with a small footprint and predictable costs. Unlike traditional, IT-as-a-Service models where LOBs might have trouble communicating their needs and getting their money’s worth, hyper-converged systems are right-sized and the costs are known up front.
Hyper-converged enables LOBs to roll out a pre-configured fully functioning IT environment quickly. These systems scale easily, by simply adding additional nodes. It is possible to purchase a system built for higher performance, a general purpose software-defined data center, or one more suited to virtualization. Another bonus of hyper-converged is that your infrastructure will be cloud-ready.
Using our Advizer tool and engaging the help of our Managed Services team can make hyper-converged systems work even better for you. Our Advizer tool can help you in the planning phases making sure that your hyper-converged system will be right-sized and meet all your performance needs. We can handle all your IT lifecycle management needs for your LOB and make sure that all your money spent on hyper-convergence is money well spent.
Our professionals can also remotely monitor your hyper-converged systems alleviating worries about availability, performance and downtime. Reduce your LOB administrative overhead and improve your efficiency today with hyper-converged. ▪