The demands of digital transformation are putting IT leaders in a difficult position. You know that it’s important to update legacy infrastructure in favor of more modern, agile technology. But refreshing an already-complex IT stack can be incredibly time-consuming.
In fact, IT teams are already spending upwards of 80% of time and budgets on IT stack management. At a time when businesses are moving faster than ever, this just isn’t sustainable.
Hyper converged infrastructure solutions have emerged as an answer to complex, manual processes. While the power, simplicity, and speed of hyperconvergence are real, there are a few challenges you should know about before diving in.
3 Hyperconvergence Challenges to Know Before Adoption
As you evaluate your hyper converged infrastructure options, keep these roadblocks to implementation in mind:
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Internal Friction: By definition, hyper converged infrastructure brings your compute, storage, and networking silos together. This is great for agility, but can be a challenge for internal IT employees. Those accustomed to specializing need to adapt to a more generalized environment — and your solution should help ease this transition.
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Scalability Isn’t a Given: You have to be careful when approaching the market for hyper converged infrastructure. Solutions will help improve the agility of IT, but that doesn’t mean scalability is always built in. Make sure you evaluate provisioning times and cost structures to make sure you can deploy hyperconvergence universally.
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Guarantee Data Efficiency: One critical advantage of hyperconvergence is data efficiency. However, not all solutions will guarantee improvements in this area. If you’re making the move away from legacy silos, make sure you’ll enjoy the data efficiencies you expect.
American Digital and HPE SimpliVity 380 Overcome Hyper Converged Challenges
When you trust HPE SimpliVity 380 from Hewlett Packard Enterprise with your hyper converged infrastructure needs, you get an enterprise-ready solution that eliminates any potential drawbacks of this integrated approach. Rather than worrying about IT training or the cost of scaling hyperconvergence, HPE SimpliVity 380 can lower total cost of ownership by 73% while providing a simple user interface and 40:1 data efficiency on average.
If you’re still uncertain about deploying hyper converged infrastructure on your own, American Digital is a Hewlett Packard Platinum Partner with the IT expertise necessary to help you implement HPE SimpliVity 380.
See how American Digital can break down the silos in your legacy IT stack by contacting us today.