The reasons why you should adopt an Hyperconverged Infrastructure

The IT sectors are in a transition period, they are modernizing their infrastructure, their tools and their legacy processes to face the actual business needs. The growing demand for enterprise applications and the modern business velocity are big threats for legacy IT systems that risk being less efficient and less cheap because of the storage, networking and server split.

Silos created for the traditional datacentre infrastructure are real barriers to change and to progress and they add complexity to every single process, from management to development.

Public Cloud solutions ensure immediate value, but they are not good for all realities e they are often too expensive.

IT leader companies are looking for hybrid cloud solutions to combine:

• Public cloud simplicity and scalability
• Lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and improved cost-effectiveness
• SLA (Service Level Agreement) personalization for applications
• A single hyperconverged infrastructure able to run all the applications.

The Hyperconverged Infrastructure simplifies the Operations within the Datacenter

The Hyperconverged Infrastructure rationalises the development and the resources management within the datacenter, combining server, storage and a smart software, in a unique “Software-Defined” solution. The structure composed by server, networking and storage can be replaced by this hyperconverged solution that allows to create an agile datacentre that growths together with your business.

Which are the Hyperconverged Infrastructure components?

• A distributed data platform that crosses a cluster of nodes delivering storage, virtualization and networking services for the application management.
• A management platform that can manage all the hyperconverged infrastructure resources through a single interface, removing the server, networking, storage and virtualization separate management.
• No addiction to hardware: all the hyperconverged infrastructure modern solutions are 100% software-defined. Each node inside the cluster manages an hypervisor (Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V) and the control functionalities work as a separate virtual machine on every single node, creating an entirely distributed structure that increases in number of resources at increasing number of nodes.
• Faster development: the hyperconvergence allows to develop an infrastructure in few minutes, allowing the IT teams to concentrate on applications and services that improve the business.

This characteristics of simplicity and flexibility taken by the Hyperconvergence to Datacenter don’t have to be the final goal, but the starting point for the Enterprise Cloud creation. This infrastructural model allows IT teams to start at the bottom and gradually scale to be aligned with the application needs. This structure helps to obtain a good level of security and control to manage the whole infrastructure safely.

The best Hyperconvergent tool: Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform

Nutanix can fill the efficiency and performance gaps between datacenters and Public Cloud solutions.

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud makes the important IT initiatives’ time to market faster, taking benefits that were possible only through public cloud in the past.

Nutanix platform provides Native Hybrid cloud functionalities, to allow companies to exploit the on-premise infrastructure advantages for predictable and mission critical applications and use the public cloud for more flexible and predictable workload.

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud integrates server, storage, virtualization and networking in a single hyperconvergent platform that can run every workload, removing the legacy infrastructure complexities.

Why choose Nutanix?

After all these considerations, here below you can find a list of the main benefits a company can gain by adopting Nutanix Enterprise Cloud:

• Freedom of choice regarding the hardware platform, hypervisor, flexible payment methods and public cloud services.
• Scalable infrastructure that starts with 3 servers and then it growths depending on the needs.
• Simplicity: development, supply of resources, scaling, problem solving in one-click.
• Economic model “Pay-as-you-grow”: it allows companies to buy and use only the resources they need, when they need them.
• Application mobility removes the technologic lock-in and makes applications independent from the underneath infrastructure.
• Native data protection and disaster recovery enable high application access and business continuity.

Nutanix named a Leader in 2018 Inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Download your free copy of the 2018 report to evaluate the sector player and to have more information regarding the market trend:

Kiratech is Nutanix Italy reseller and Premier Partner. With its certifications both commercial (Nutanix Platform Sales Rep Certification) and technical (Nutanix Platform Professional), Kiratech possesses expertise enough to assist companies in their journey towards Hyperconvergence.