Hyperconverged infrastructure simplifies scaling private clouds
Data centers used to be filled with network equipment, servers, and storage from different manufacturers and management tools. Supporting this infrastructure required specialists, and scaling up and down computing capabilities wasn’t easy.
Today, many companies deploy hyperconverged infrastructure that combines network, compute, and storage in a building block appliance. In addition, management tools enable administrators to virtualize computing clusters and assign resources based on an application’s computing needs.
Tiwan Nicholson, director of IT service operations at UNOS, uses Nutanix and explains the benefits. “We’re seeing 30% improvement on laborious workloads compared with the previous infrastructure, where some of our big data and deep analytics jobs took days. Now, our generalist infrastructure engineers can manage the hardware layer and virtualization layer without the specialized skills needed for a dedicated big data database or blade server and all those different layers of the stack that we used to have to manage.”