Technology leaders like you are increasing their IT infrastructure, moving away from traditional blade computing to hybrid cloud environments and reducing operating costs.
The unified computing system (UCS), which is used to manage hybrid cloud operations, is flexible, agile, and scalable. They improve efficiency and control IT architecture by combining computing, networking, virtualization, storage elements and resources in one system.
Traditional blade computing solutions, by contrast, require many components, are more complex, and require more staff time to maintain. This is why traditional infrastructure is typically more costly to maintain. Take a look at the following:
This blog post answers your questions about what your organization can gain by switching to hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Why should we modernize infrastructure to enable hybrid cloud environments?
First, hybrid workforce is becoming the new norm in business. Employees can work in company facilities and at remote locations. They often move between these locations in the same month, week or even day. This trend is driving the demand for a wider range of applications. Cisco research predicts that the number of applications running at the edge and in data centers will rise by 30% within one year.
Second, it is becoming increasingly difficult to deliver this robust application set for the growing ranks of hybrid workers using traditional methods. A Cisco study found that siloed teams, manual processes and inefficient workflows were the main bottlenecks in app delivery pipelines for more than 60% of organizations.
Because the computing workload flows freely between public and private platforms, a hybrid cloud environment addresses both of these issues. It does this efficiently, every day, from the infrastructure’s heart to the farthest point of the network’s perimeter.
Why are traditional blade computing environments no more suitable for our needs?
Network devices, storage modules, and management tools are all separate components in conventional server environments that use blade infrastructure. They require individual connections to separate ports.
This complexity reduces the flexibility, agility, and scalability, and adds unnecessary costs. Because there are so many moving parts, it takes more labor to add innovative technology, adjust to changing conditions takes longer, and infrastructure for growth requires more investment.
Your company cannot afford to compete in today’s fast-paced business environment. This is especially true as we work through the pandemic.
What are the benefits of today’s UCS-based hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions?
Cisco’s UCS X-Series was designed to automate, optimize and maintain today’s hybrid cloud infrastructure at a global scale.
X-Series solutions can handle both traditional and modern computing workloads. These systems are a modular infrastructure that can be assembled from the cloud and quickly deployed around the world.
Cisco developed UCS X using its Intersight management platform. This intelligent SaaS tool simplifies orchestration and performance of network resources and performance from a single point of view.
These are the benefits of UCS X
Modular design allows your network to run any app. UCS X automates processes like scripting and streamlining interfaces. This allows you to configure and operate new and existing apps with ease. High agility: You have full visibility and consolidated control, which allows you to react to changing business conditions and shift computing workloads quickly. Businesses see a 65% increase in time to market over traditional servers. Highly scalable: The more data centers you have, the greater your efficiency. The number of UCS systems that are implemented increases exponentially, which means that efficiency increases exponentially. Intersight offers a 20%-25% efficiency increase when managing UCS groups, compared to managing individual blades. Each cluster must be managed separately so the effort, time, and investment required to maintain and manage this infrastructure increases as your computing needs increase and diversify.
This operating equation is problematic for the era of hybrid workforce. Your network boundaries are constantly changing and expanding. You will always need more people, procedures, and money to provide the resilient, redundant infrastructure that your business requires today.
You also need to manage more clusters than you can maintain. This increases your chance of experiencing downtime. Experts believe that traditional network servers’ failure rates increase over time. As your blades get older, they are more susceptible to experiencing outages. Analyst estimates show that every hour of downtime can result in lost revenue, user productivity, and IT service costs of $100,000 or more depending on the organization’s size.
What savings can a hybrid cloud infrastructure make for my company?
Each organization’s business needs and computing needs are different, but moving from blades into UCS X-Series solutions powered Intersight can help you save between $2000 and $3000 per server.
Two factors are responsible for these savings:
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