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T & M

Time to Say Yes to Hyper Convergence

Anoop Pai Dhungat Chairman & Managing Director
Galaxy Office Automation Pvt . Ltd .
HCI combines the advantages of converged infrastructure , virtualization and software-defined storage technologies
Every year , the industry looks forward to embracing
percent to reach almost $ 2 billion in 2016 , propelling it
disruptive technologies that change the traditional
toward mainstream use in the next five years . HCIS will be
approach to IT and equip businesses to deal with new
the fastest-growing segment of the overall market for
challenges . Hyper-convergence is probably one of the
integrated systems , reaching almost $ 5 billion , which is 24
most-talked about topic for analysts and IT leaders this
percent of the market , by 2019 .
year . Hyper-convergence infrastructure is a softwarecentric architecture which is rapidly gaining interest and adoption worldwide . Major tech vendors and solution providers have already upped their ante to reap the best of
Here are the reasons organizations across the world are adopting hyper-convergence .
Improved Efficiency
this emerging technology .
HCI includes the latest flash technology and powerefficient
Hyper-convergence has been touted as the panacea for the
processors which make it more efficient than the
increasing challenges on the IT teams to remain costprocesses
traditional data centers . This will help in simplifying your
effective , while providing better performance , protection ,
and eliminate complexity . With the exponential
and resiliency to the business and end users . The
growth in data today , you can easily phase out the time
immediate benefits of hyper-convergence infrastructure
spent in data centers to manage the storage and reduce it
that also include improved stability , faster time to value
considerably . Less number of IT staff will reduce your
and reduction in physical footprint , as well as the long-term
financial burden also .
advantages like the reduction in the amount of serverrelated incidents and a single point of contact for any issues that pops up post sales whether it is related to the compute , storage or virtualization which adds to the customer satisfaction .
According to a recent survey by Gartner , the market for
Hyper-Converged Integrated Systems ( HCIS ) grew 79
Reduced Cost of Operating
HCI consumes less floor space and hence will result in lower rental costs for data centers . With the less power consumption and heat production , it can help in significantly reducing operational costs . It is highly flexible and you can quickly convert your needs to functionality without going through the procurement process , if there is
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