The Converged Infrastructure Marketplace: Why Converged and Why Hyper-converged?

Technology Expectations:

Consistency of operations (Day-zero and beyond)

- Abstraction

- Automated

- Flexibility

- Scalability

- Simplicity

- Speed

Any new technology must serve the above 6 requirements.

“Business leaders recognize that making cost the primary factor, blocks them away from market innovations.”

State of hyper-convergence adoption (2018):

Which workloads are you running on your hyperconverged systems?

60% - Database such as Oracle or SQL server

53% - Virtual desktop (VDI)

46% - File and print services

39% - Collaboration such as Exchange of Sharepoint

34% - Commercial packaged ISV software

23% - Analytics

13% - Web facing workloads

Customers decisions:

Decisions Go Beyond Just Technology.

- Technology

- People

- Process

Image: Technology. People, Process

Qualifier Questions – Technology:

- What is the use-case / deployment?

- Are the applications architected for a scale-out deployment?

- Do you know the projected capacity?

Qualifier Questions – People:

- How do you roll up into the IT organization?

- Do you see signs of compute, storage teams merging?

- Is there more demand from application developers that you need to meet in a hands-off (automated) manner?

Qualifier Questions – Process:

- How mature and automated are your IT processes?

- Can those be changed easily? Would the business and IT leaders allow rapid/frequent changes?

NetApp HCI:

1) Has flexible configuration options

2) Ability to scale. Scale independently compute and storage.

3) QoS ability unique to NetApp.

Why CI & HCI Are Better Together = MORE Solutions Covered:

Image: CI + HCI & the NetApp Data Fabric

Unified Management + Common Data Services + One View:

- Move data between locations

- Protect data across platforms

- Migrate apps through lifecycle

- Tier data to the cloud

- Integrate cloud services

- Split data services (files services for VDI)

Knowledge Check:

Q1: Which set of factors contribute MOST to IT and business professionals’ decisions to deploy hyper converged infrastructure?

A1: Flexibility and Simplicity

A2: You should lead with converged infrastructure if the customer’s goal is to maintain their datacentre, and the customer’s organization is structured to operate in silos.

A3: HCI gives customers the private cloud infrastructure that they need and - when compared to customers’ aging hardware - will most likely increase performance.