Today, one of the main concerns of our small to medium sized business (SMB) customers as they enter the new age of IT is that they don’t have the level of IT expertise or manpower to take advantage of emerging technologies.
They have heard these new technologies could make them more productive, but because of the demands of keeping IT infrastructure resources up and running on a daily basis, they don’t have the money, time or staff to focus on new technology initiatives. At a SMB, the small IT staff can be consumed in day to day tasks. They also don’t have the budget or the flexibility to hire new technology experts or invest in training their current IT staff in these emerging technologies that may or may not be here to stay.
We think hyper-converged is ideally suited for our SMB customers facing these struggles. These systems deliver the emerging technology they are looking for in a single appliance-like infrastructure and can easily service the SMB’s 200-400 guests. The all-encompassing system is pre-configured and comes ready to use right off the shelf and it does not require significant training or expertise to deploy.
Hyper-converged systems can be installed in as little as 15 minutes. The investment in these systems is considerably less than the investment that can go into virtualization, software-defined data centers and other traditional IT solutions. But the most significant savings is the time and money that is saved on training employees how to use and deploy new technologies.
Not only are these pre-configured systems easy to install, they are easy to manage. The management of the hyper-converged systems is simplified so that you can easily take advantage of new and evolving technologies without in house expertise. These systems guide you through management tasks. The investment in training is much less than in traditional systems; typically, it takes one day to learn all about your hyper converged environment and start taking advantage of this new technology. The systems are set up to work much like using a public cloud (for example, Amazon); all you have to know is the answers to a few easy questions.
Hyper-converged is a great way for SMBs to take advantage of emerging technologies without making big investments. Rolta AdvizeX Managed Services provides lifecycle management support for your hyper-converged systems. This includes everything above the operating system layer, including, patches, repurposing resources, backup, performance, and everything else traditionally put under the IT lifecycle management umbrella. Hyper-convergence will modernize your infrastructure resources without making a long-term, expensive commitment.
Stay tuned for the next blog in our series on hyper-converged target environments, Alleviate IT Headaches at Remote Offices with Hyper-Converged. ▪