9 benefits of hyperconvergence for businesses

Discover the benefits of having a hyperconverged infrastructure in your organization.

The need for IT convergence is much more business-related than information technology itself. While improving IT infrastructure management is a key focus, the ability to help companies rationalize their current investments and increase business agility is also key to adoption. The business world wants a cost-effective solution that also improves functionality and overall management, and hyperconvergence enables exactly that.

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Using what an organization already has and leveraging it is why hyperconvergence becomes a critical step for many IT departments around the world. While the economic impact of such technology is an important point to consider, especially as it relates to business, the functionality is what makes hyperconvergence beneficial for virtually any IT department, even in small companies.

Furthermore, companies are already starting to realize the importance of this technology, as more than 45% of organizations worldwide are already starting to implement hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) into their daily lives.

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To further clarify the benefits of technology for businesses, we list some key benefits:

1- Data efficiency

A hyperconverged infrastructure results in numerous reductions, such as in storage, bandwidth, and IOPS requirements.

2- Mobility

The technology enables organizations to achieve greater mobility in workloads and applications.

3- Scalability and efficiency

Hyperconvergence is a scalable, unit-based approach to development that allows IT to expand its capabilities by adding units, like a LEGO set.

Granular scalability is one of the key features of this infrastructure. Unlike embedded system products, which often require higher investments, hyperconverged solutions have a much lower phase ratio. In this case, the phase ratio refers to the amount of infrastructure a company must purchase to reach the next level of infrastructure. The higher the ratio, the higher the initial cost. And, as a result, the process takes longer to fully utilize the new resources added through such expansion. A reduced stage ratio results in a much more efficient use of resources. Therefore, when new resources are required, it is easy to add nodes to a hyperconverged infrastructure.

4- Data protection

Although not one of the simplest tasks, data protection is very important. The problem is that many times organizations only do the bare minimum to protect their confidential data. This is mainly due to two reasons: Comprehensive data protection can be very expensive and very complex.

To ensure data protection in a legacy system, you need to make several decisions and purchase a variety of products. In a hyperconverged environment, however, backup and disaster recovery are included. Both are part of the infrastructure, not outsourced additions.

5- High availability

Enables higher levels of availability than legacy systems.

6- Cost efficiency

Create a sustainable business model for the IT department that eliminates unnecessary expenses. Additionally, hyperconverged systems have low implementation costs compared to their integrated systems counterparts and legacy infrastructures.

7- Centralization of virtual machines

It focuses on virtual machines or workloads as the pillars of enterprise IT, with all supporting constructs revolving around individual VMs.

8- Facilitated automation

Automation is one of the main components of the software-defined data center and goes hand in hand with hyperconvergence. When all resources are truly combined and when centralized management tools are in place, administrative functionality includes date scheduling opportunities and scripting options.

Likewise, IT doesn’t have to worry about trying to build automated frameworks with hardware from different manufacturers or product lines. Everything is contained in a single environment.

9- Improved agility

Agility is a very important issue for IT today. The business side of the company expects IT to respond as quickly as possible when their needs arise. However, legacy environments force IT to deploy a multitude of resources to address the needs of business leaders. Hyperconverged infrastructure allows IT to achieve success much faster.

Being agile means being able to shift workloads as needed. In a hyperconverged world, all resources in all physical data centers reside under the same administrative structure. Migrating workloads in such an environment is simple, especially in a solution that enables consistent deduplication as an essential part of its offering. Expanding small data is much easier than expanding fully expanded data, which can speed up tasks.

The bottom line is that a hyperconverged framework offers compelling benefits to IT organizations and enables line-of-business leaders to create low-cost solutions for their immediate needs. It also allows IT experts to focus on key business objectives, simplifies the data center, reduces TCO (total cost of ownership)eliminates data silos and facilitates IT department organization, allowing companies to think differently when it comes to information technology.

Sources:

http://www.tympaniinc.com/advanced-technology-blog/PostId/262/5-benefits-of-hyper-convergence
http://www.hyperconverged.org/10-things-hyperconvergence-can-do/
http://www.technalysisresearch.com/downloads/The%20Benefits%20of%20Hyper-Convergence%20Webinar,%20Final.pdf