According to research leaders IDC, organisations around the world spent over $3.3 billion on converged systems in 2012, and they estimate this to have increased by 20% in 2013.
IT managers are now expected to focus on deploying business services on demand and at scale in fractions of the time required in the past. In fact, your IT department’s ability to support specific business objectives, such as scaling to integrate an acquired firm onto the existing application and data platform, takes precedence over other IT tasks.
The converged infrastructure model is designed with these kind of requirements in mind and makes this deployment model possible. Converged systems allow administrators to move away from deploying each element (server, storage, network) individually and instead move towards delivering what businesses actually need: availability and performance.
Within a converged system such as VCE’s Vblock System, the compute, storage, and network devices are tuned together for high performance across multiple workloads.
Aligning IT with the business is a key issue for us. Typically, organisations we speak to are integrating components from multiple vendors to create their own systems. Not only does that complicate procurement, but it also means that IT has to manage the change process whenever a vendor introduces a new product or features as well as the updates and coordinating support.
As we all know based on analyst reports, the result is the majority of the IT budget is spent on maintaining operations rather than investing in new business capability. However, VCE transforms data centre operations to reduce total average annual data centre costs by 50%. That is the transformational value, freeing up businesses to focus on competitive differentiation instead of running depreciating legacy application infrastructure.
“Converged systems allow administrators to move away from deploying each element individually and instead move towards delivering what businesses actually need: availability and performance”
In designing a solution, VCE does a physical and a logical build-up. A logical build is defining the layers and integration with the customer networks and data centre, so rather than shipping the components with no configuration, VCE configures them specifically for the customer’s environment up to the virtualisation layer. As a result, the customer is taking delivery of a solution that VCE, with our input, has validated for its environment.
In a conventional environment today, at least 120 to 160 days are required, right from the time you start the design, ordering the equipment and implementation; with VCE, you are able to cut this by more than half to 45 days. Vblock, enables the fastest time to deployment and simplify ongoing IT operations by ensuring the right system configuration arrives ready to power on and integrate into the target application environment, with predictable performance and availability SLAs.
Comsys is an IT infrastructure solutions and services company. In the past year, Comsys has successfully deployed VCE Vblock converged infrastructure solutions into two large enterprise sites in Ireland and is currently working with several other customers in planning converged infrastructure projects around VCE Vblock solutions and reference architecture EMC VSPEX solutions, which brings similar benefits to Vblock but in the mid-market space.
Ben McGahon is managing director of Comsys.
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