Converged Infrastructure: Simplified IT Solutions

This article describes what converged infrastructure is, which core components, and the key categories. It mentions the business benefits and shows how Evernex support, businesses based on their business infrastructure needs.

What Is Converged Infrastructure?

Most businesses buy hardware component systems from one company, instead of separately from different suppliers. We call this Converged Infrastructure.

Converged Infrastructure is a combination of IT systems, including servers, storage, networking, and management.

We call this type of IT infrastructure also hyperconverged infrastructure or cloud infrastructure.

Core Components

The cloud infrastructure of converged Infrastructure consists of four core components:

Network
Servers
Storage
Virtualization

Each of these components helps businesses successfully deploy and deliver applications and other IT services.

Key categories

We can divide a Converged infrastructure or Cloud Computing into three key categories:

Category 1: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

The first key category is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This category offers access to core components of cloud IT, including:

Networking capabilities
Virtual or dedicated hardware
Storage space

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This category delivers the highest degree of flexibility. It also enables extensive control over IT resources.

Category 2: Platform as a Service (PaaS)

The second key category is Platform as a Service (PaaS). It focuses on deploying and managing applications. This includes:

Resource-procurement
Capacity planning
Hardware maintenance
Patching
Other operational tasks involved in application management.

Category 3: Software as a Service (SaaS)

The third key category is Software as a Service (SaaS). This offers complete software products managed by the service provider.

It helps businesses with IT service maintenance and IT infra-structure management. Businesses can solely use the provided software, without concern about its IT maintenance and management.

In a nutshell:

IaaS provides access to resources such as virtual machines and virtual storage.
PaaS provides execution environments, application development, and deployment tools.
SaaS provides software as a service to end-users.

Benefits of Converged Infrastructure in IT companies

Buying a converged infrastructure of components from a single vendor has the following advantages:

Benefit 1: Enhanced Scalability and Flexibility

A first benefit is enhanced scalability and flexibility. It:

helps minimize and eliminate hardware compatibility issues.

Benefit 2: Improved Efficiency and Simplified Management

A second benefit is improved efficiency and simplified management. It:

Streamlines data center management.
Eliminates the need for IT to have multi-vendor product expertise.
Accelerate deployment.
Reduces risks.
Unifies components.
Improves the efficiency of virtualized workloads.

With a traditional IT infrastructure system, an organization requires IT specialists to manage each of the different core components of networking, servers, storage, and virtualization individually.

Cost Savings and Reduced IT Complexity

A third benefit is cost savings and reduced IT complexity. It:

Saves data center costs on provisioning, deployment, and management, as businesses use fewer IT resources than traditional IT architectures.
Reduces IT complexity with a single management interface to configure and manage all IT system resources (computer, network, storage, and server).

How Evernex Supports Your Converged Infrastructure Needs

Evernex support businesses with their converged infrastructure needs, in the following ways:

Multi-Vendor expertise and Comprehensive IT Support

The first converged infrastructure need, Evernex offers is multi-vendor expertise and comprehensive IT support.

This multi-vendor support in IT infrastructure management is the ability to monitor and manage an entire IT infrastructure- including hardware, and IT services, from multiple vendors.

Customizable Solutions

The second converged infrastructure need, Evernex offers is customizable IT solutions. Evernex creates flexible training needs of a company or organization through co-creation to accelerate business and strengthen team skills.

Lifecycle Extension and Sustainability Focus

The third converged infrastructure need, Evernex offers is lifecycle extension and sustainability focus.

The life cycle sustainability of IT infrastructure plays a crucial role in evaluating the environmental impact of a product throughout its entire life cycle. Businesses can make informed decisions to promote sustainability by considering each stage in the IT life cycle.

IT lifecycle management (ITLM) refers to the process of managing the entire lifecycle of IT assets within a business, from procurement and deployment to maintenance, upgrades, and eventual disposal or recycling. The lifecycle typically includes the following phases:

Planning: Assessing needs, selecting vendors, and budgeting for new IT assets.
Acquisition: Procuring the necessary hardware solutions.
Deployment: Installing, configuring, and making the IT assets operational.
Maintenance and Support: Ongoing servicing, repairs, and updates to ensure assets run optimally.
Upgrade or Replacement: Enhancing hardware as technology evolves or when assets are nearing the end of their useful life. (End-of-Service-life).
Disposal/Recycle: Safe and environmentally friendly disposal or recycling of obsolete equipment. (End-of-life).

Optimizing these stages helps to work towards a more sustainable future for future generations. Transparency and traceability across the entire IT product life cycle are essential to effectively address sustainability challenges.

Converged Infrastructure Services Offered by Evernex

Evernex offer the following three converged infrastructure services for businesses and organizations:

Implementation and Deployment Support

The first converged infrastructure service is implementation and deployment support.

On the one hand, we use Implementation to get an IT system hardware work correctly. It requires careful planning and analysis. On the other hand, Deployment refers to the product release.

Maintenance and Proactive Monitoring

The second converged infrastructure service is maintenance and proactive monitoring.

Proactive monitoring and predictive maintenance with an efficient IT Helpdesk improve business operations. They prevent unexpected failures and improve IT equipment performance, safety, and longevity.

This helps businesses and organizations to achieve higher efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the quality of IT services.

Upgrade and Optimization Services

The third converged infrastructure service is upgrade and optimization services. Service optimization helps businesses and organizations to reduce service costs and maximize customer satisfaction.

Frequently Asked Questions on Converged infrastructure

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