Hyperconverged Infrastructure Eases IT Transformation For Hybrid Cloud

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While “the cloud” is often considered a place, the reality is cloud is an operating model that leverages modern technology to implement it. Adapting to this new model requires transformation of both technology and IT operations. A 2016 State of IT Transformation survey conducted by Dell EMC and VMware found that, although the majority of respondents have been considering moving to a cloud model since 2010, 90% are still in evaluation or proof of concept mode for hybrid cloud six years later. Why is it taking so long?

When I talk with customers about why their hybrid cloud initiatives are slowed, they tell me IT transformation requires a great deal of planning, evaluation, re-organization and modernization of infrastructure technologies and applications. Every organization approaches IT transformation at a different pace, and not every organization will want to deploy a full cloud service delivery model now or even in the future. Multiple factors, including costs, skill sets, drive to innovate and willingness to transform, contribute to an organization’s approach and will determine if and when IT management teams move from traditional siloed organizational structures to infrastructure management and then cloud services management teams.

HCI SYSTEMS ACCELERATE IT TRANSFORMATION

One of the first steps toward an organization’s transformation journey – and their journey to a hybrid cloud operating model - is to simplify infrastructure deployment and management by introducing hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) into the environment. HCI solutions that collapse traditional three-tier infrastructure by natively integrating compute, storage, networking, virtualization, management and data services significantly reduce IT administrative tasks and create the foundation for a modern IT infrastructure.