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Table of Contents v These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1 About This Book ................................................................................... 1 Foolish Assumptions ............................................................................ 1 Icons Used in This Book ....................................................................... 2 Beyond the Book .................................................................................. 2 CHAPTER 1: Understanding Enterprise IT Challenges .................. 3 How Enterprise IT Groups Are More Challenged Than Ever ........... 3 Driving new revenue opportunities .............................................. 4 Shifting from a technology to a business mindset ..................... 4 Enabling innovation ........................................................................ 5 Supporting digital transformation ................................................ 5 Optimizing costs .............................................................................. 6 Addressing constantly emerging security concerns ................... 6 Understanding Datacenter Architecture Options ............................ 7 Why three-tier infrastructure is a one-trick pony ....................... 8 Stumbling across public cloud challenges ................................... 9 Converged infrastructure versus problem-solving ................... 10 Introducing hyperconverged infrastructure .............................. 11 Finding the hybrid cloud sweet spot .......................................... 11 CHAPTER 2: Defining and Extending Hyperconverged Infrastructure ............................................................................... 13 Discovering Hyperconverged Infrastructure .................................. 13 Identifying performance, resilience, and scalability features ........................................................................ 14 Delineating hardware and software in HCI ............................... 15 Implementing a fractional consumption model ....................... 15 Realigning IT silos toward business outcomes .......................... 17 Expanding beyond Storage Virtualization ....................................... 17 Solving the unstructured data management problem ............ 17 Providing persistent storage for containers .............................. 18 Enabling deep application integration ....................................... 18 Connecting and securing HCI with a smart networking fabric .......................................................................... 19 Streamlining infrastructure operations with advanced machine intelligence ................................................... 22 Taking the On-Ramp to Enterprise Cloud with Next-Generation HCI .......................................................................... 23