Pay-per-use converged infrastructure model offers cost-effective alternative, claims Fujitsu’s Kenneth Keogh

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Kenneth Keogh, director of business development, Fujitsu Ireland.

7 February 2014

The past year has seen plenty of buzz around the converged infrastructure (CI) space. As businesses move forward on their journey to the cloud, investing in this technology means a large capital expenditure (CapEx) investment as a single chassis is purchased to centrally manage servers, storage, network devices et cetera. However, for some companies this model may not meet their business needs. But is there a credible alternative?

In a business environment that craves adaptable solutions to every problem, the idea of relying on a processing hours, pay-as-you-go model for converged infrastructure services can offer a far less complicated solution allowing rapid access to unlimited ICT capacity and capabilities.

Viewing converged infrastructure in a switch-on/switch-off model where you only pay for what you use aligns with the current trend of ‘anything as a service’, bringing services to a company as quickly as possible and without disruption.

Take a business focusing on a particular R&D process, testing something which they want to scale up and scale down very quickly. A pay-per-use model of converged infrastructure can not only help that project to be managed as it should, but it means the company involved don’t have to pay for the physical infrastructure thus controlling CapEx costs and offering more streamlined operational expense (OpEx) costs.

With an ever-changing IT environment, the levels of agility, efficiency and quality of service required of converged infrastructure offerings is of a high standard.

In recent years high-performance computing products have become more commoditised, a trend led by businesses demanding to know ‘when will I have it, will it work seamlessly and tell me what’s happening in real time’.

“Viewing converged infrastructure in a switch-on/switch-off model where you only pay for what you use aligns with the current trend of ‘anything as a service’, bringing services to a company as quickly as possible and without disruption.”

So a pay-as-you-go model for converged infrastructure will appeal greatly to such businesses as, rather than complicating your IT setup further, it compliments your business.

Fujitsu’s, Dynamic Infrastructures portfolio seeks to meet these challenges head on. Fujitsu’s vShape — a private cloud straight out of the box’ — includes storage from NetApp, networking from Brocade, back-up and recovery from Symantec, virtualisation software from VMware all running on Fujitsu servers, designed and optimised for virtualisation. Thus reducing the cost of design and time to deployment, freeing up valuable internal resource.

Take the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland for example, a company may want to standardise platforms across a range of different functions within the business. They want commodity services delivered at commodity prices. In short, they just want everything to work as it should within their IT infrastructure. A pay-per-usage converged infrastructure model allows this to happen while they can concentrate their resources on doing what they do best.

It is happening in numerous industries, whether it is health or retail, what organisations don’t want is a distraction away from what they are trying to achieve as a business. What they need is predictable and reliable ICT. At this point in time, that shouldn’t be difficult to find and here at Fujitsu this is what we aim to provide.

 

 

Kenneth Keogh is Fujitsu’s director of business development.

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