Enterprise IT teams today are looking for ways to deliver IT services with the speed
and operational efficiency of public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and Google
Cloud Platform (GCP).
In the past, traditional IT infrastructure—with separate storage, storage networks, and
servers—did the job of helping IT accomplish mission-critical objectives. However, it is
not well suited to meet the growing demands of enterprise applications or the fast pace
of modern businesses. The silos created by traditional infrastructure add complexity to
every step, from deployment to management, which makes it harder to respond quickly
to constantly-shifting priorities of your business. We're left with an urgent need for inno-
vation and a paradigm shift within enterprise infrastructure that enables IT professionals
to work smarter, not harder.
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has been around for more than a decade, simplifying
datacenter operations, and enabling faster scaling with lower cost than traditional infra-
structure. In its short life, HCI has undergone a significant transformation and is now able to
support the vast majority of modern applications and use cases on a common platform.
Today, HCI enables organizations to operate their Software-Defined Datacenters (SDDC)
as private clouds, and it also seamlessly integrates private and public clouds into a unified
hybrid cloud. There are eight key reasons why organizations are replacing their aging
SAN infrastructure with modern HCI, and why you should too. Let's take a look.
