Companies with remote or branch offices (ROBO) usually try to limit the number of IT employees at these remote locations.
They do not usually staff IT infrastructure experts at these smaller offices, but instead employ an IT generalist who takes care of keeping things up and running day to day. As a result, when they embark on big infrastructure project they do not have the expertise required onsite and they often do not have the resources or budget to train or hire someone new. Adding infrastructure resources at remote or branch offices can be stalled when road blocks are encountered while attempting get answers and best practices from corporate IT experts.
An ideal solution for a ROBO is one that is managed centrally and deployed in a formulaic and standardized way. When our customers come to us looking for a solution to these problems, we think hyper-converged.
A company’s remote locations need standalone standardized systems that are easy to deploy, manage, and scale without much IT expertise. Using hyper-convergence, 200-400 guests can be taken care of within a single self-contained environment. These systems are pre-configured and pre-defined alleviating painful delays waiting for corporate IT to deliver recommendations on how to proceed on infrastructure projects. You don’t need an expert to install these systems in as little as 15 minutes. The hyper-converged system also comes pre-packaged with simplified management which can be overseen onsite by a non-infrastructure expert.
Hyper-converged works well in call centers, manufacturing sites, local sales offices, and retail stores, to name a few. Large hospitals with smaller “branch” locations are another good use case for hyper-convergence. The common goal of all these businesses is to have a self-contained, easy to install system for locations remote from the corporate headquarters.
This takes away the headaches of having to check in with corporate for every little infrastructure decision. The onsite IT generalist can take care of all the day to day tasks related to systems maintenance and management and no longer needs to consult with the IT experts at corporate.
At times certain branch offices may have increased workloads, for example in retail locations around holiday times. Hyper-converged is built to easily scale linearly. When you need more nodes, simply plug an additional hyper-converged system into the network. The platform will recognize the new nodes and guide you through the rest adding infrastructure resources for each new node.
Engaging Rolta AdvizeX Managed Services with your hyper-converged solution enhances the benefits of hyper-converged. Our Managed Services team can take care of your remote monitoring. We can help with handling the demands of lifecycle management, including, patches, repurposing resources, backup, and performance. Hyper-converged simplifies IT and Rolta AdvizeX can simplify IT even further.
We will be your IT resources at remote sites that don’t have any IT support. Rolta AdvizeX can advise you on performance and sizing and help with scaling as well. With hyper-convergence remote offices can easily manage their own IT infrastructure resources starting small and growing over time as needed.
Stay tuned for the next blog in our series on target environments for hyper-convergence, Ensure Predictable Costs with Hyper-Converged. ▪