Converged Infrastructure Takes the Market by Storm

Converged infrastructure is a large and growing market opportunity requiring huge investments in technology, integration, service delivery, and channel partnerships. All the major systems, storage, networking, and management suppliers have a stake in this market as users are increasingly demanding simplified deployments and fewer siloed solutions. Buyers appear ready to trade individual component performance for integration, marking a turning-point in data center infrastructure.

Converged infrastructure (CI) is an integrated set of compute, storage, and networking components with infrastructure management software that provides a single logical chunk of hardware and software that is either specifically engineered together or at the very least tested and proven in a variety of configurations and applications. Converged infrastructure simplifies hardware and software management and accelerates the deployment of infrastructure for private clouds.