- Datacenters cannot scale easily due to legacy infrastructure and the associated migration challenges. Organizations are fixing these scalability needs by adding resources but this process is getting complex.
- Organizations want a complete open environment, so that they can plug and play the required resources without any integration challenges and be more flexible to organizational needs.
- The traditional three-tier architecture, with its dependence on a shared storage resource (traditional SAN storage), acts as a bottleneck against better performance.
- Organizations are looking for better resource utilization, improved performance, scalability, and reduction in hardware footprint in datacenters.
- The top 3 IT priorities for organizations' in 2017 are in investing in modernizing their infrastructure to improve application performance, reducing capital IT spending on infrastructure, and investing in enterprise wide management software to improve automation.
- Organizations that are using converged or hyper-converged infrastructure witnessed a huge positive impact on resource utilization, performance, scalability, and reduction in hardware footprint in datacenters.
- With the deployment of converged and hyper-converged infrastructure, organizations increased the IT staff's productivity by reducing repetitive jobs such as monitoring and provisioning, and investing that time in innovations, trying new technologies, and collaborating internally to understand the business requirements.
- Post-deployment of converged/hyper-converged infrastructure, the time spent on provisioning was significantly reduced by 34% and that on monitoring fell by 18%. These organizations were able to invest resources in innovations (27% improvement).
- Majority of the organizations have rated performance and quality of service as the most important attributes for a converged and hyper-converged infrastructure.
- Among organizations that neither use converged technologies nor have any intentions in the future, the key barriers were concerns about higher hardware and software cost and limited scalability.
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