Converged Applications: Its about Speed to Deliver Change

The question addressed is how to provide 80% of applications with storage at 50% of the cost.

A key IT imperative is to reduce the total cost of internal computing (CAPEX and OPEX) and improve service times to the lines-of-business in order to be competitive with best-of-breed public cloud options. Enterprises are actively implementing private clouds to achieve this objective and avoid the reaction of CEOs and lines-of-business to outsource everything. Similarly, smaller cloud providers are seeking to reduce their total cost of infrastructure (CAPEX and OPEX). Both enterprise private clouds and cloud service providers must ensure that the speed to spin-up or tear-down logical infrastructure deployments to support specific business objectives is reduced from weeks to minutes, and must provide sufficient automation to enable customers or LOBs to select infrastructure for deployment easily and unambiguously.