Converged Storage A NextGen Storage Strategy for Big Data

In today's hyperconnected world with its multiple mobile devices ubiquitous Internet access and pervasive social media platforms people expect immediate access to information and services. These expectations are increasingly felt in corporate IT departments where business units demand instant applications and turnonadime services. As organizations travel this road however they often run into a wall. Actually several walls including those between the server storage and networking functions. The traditional IT infrastructure is often too rigid to enable companies to fully realize the InstantOn Enterprise. In many cases servers storage and networking have been built and managed separately creating functional silos. And within the storage architecturean explosion in the amount and types of data coupled with new demands from the virtualization of servers and clientshas made storage increasingly inflexible and complicated to manage. These factors stand in the way of the kind of adaptability agility and integrated management that the InstantOn Enterprise requires. If organizations are to continue toward the goal of delivering ITaaS they need to break down these barriers and lay the groundwork for a nextgeneration architecture. Read on to see how converged architecture is changing IT forever.