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The data centre as you know it has been reimagined by cloud computing, expanding the concept of “centre” to mean anywhere that makes the most sense for an organisation to host its data, apps and workloads. Increasingly, that “anywhere” can be in both physical stores and in the cloud—as found in a hybrid cloud architecture—because using the cloud offers convenience, scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency while maintaining a physical data centre still makes sense due to security, compliance and resiliency concerns.

Ultimately, the goal of every organisation will be to optimise workload placement, and a hybrid cloud architecture best enables this kind of optimisation through multiple compute environments. Hand-in-hand with this goal is to be able to deploy the kind of hybrid architecture that will best allow a seamless transition to the hybrid model. That hybrid architecture happens to be the physical data centre itself—provided it is dynamic, intelligent and hyperconverged already.

A hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, is a software-centric architecture that enables the all-in-one-system integration of all the elements of a traditional data centre: Storage, compute, networking and management. This integration results in a significant reduction in data centre complexity, improved scalability and enhanced flexibility and agility. That last benefit, in particular, enables organisations to leverage the cloud without giving up control of on-premises hardware.

Having said that, there is one important caveat to all this: You will need a best-of-breed, next-era HCI if your organisation is to get the full benefits of hyperconvergence and—in the process—use it as the conduit that will bridge your organisation’s move into the hybrid environment.

This is where HPE SimpliVity comes in.

HPE SimpliVity is a hyperconverged architecture that goes beyond software-defined and into the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is self-managing, self-optimising and self-healing thanks to HPE InfoSight, which enables machine-learning predictive analytics that levels up HPE SimpliVity from being a traditional HCI to an intelligent one.

Among the most notable benefits of using HPE SimpliVity are end-to-end visibility into your HPE SimpliVity environment, along with predictive analytics that will enable your HCI to predict, prepare and prevent infrastructure problems before they occur. It will also ease the burden on your IT team by providing round-the-clock AI-driven monitoring that automatically opens support tickets when issues arise—thus keeping interruptions from worsening into full-blown issues and preventing unnecessary downtimes that are sure to hurt both your brand and your bottom line.

With an intelligent HCI solution like HPE SimpliVity, you stand to gain a slew of benefits, such as:

Just as importantly, HPE SimpliVity offers support for the cloud as well, whether public, private or hybrid. Specifically, it provides a cost-efficient cloud-scale infrastructure for data virtualisation, extensibility-on-demand to the public cloud, data centre consolidation, IT modernisation and technology refresh for servers and storage and backup and disaster recovery capabilities where needed. Crucially, you have complete control over all these features in a single, simplified pane of glass.

In other words, HPE SimpliVity is foundational in every sense because it can help empower your workforce, drive app-modernisation and optimise your data efficiency. Aside from that, it is a key enabler of any hybrid deployment, delivering both the cloud computing capabilities and the hyperconverged building blocks that can help you build the hybrid infrastructure that your organisation needs.

It goes without saying that you will need an intelligent, next-era HCI if you want to adopt a hybrid environment and place your apps, workloads and data, anywhere! That HCI is HPE SimpliVity and it can guarantee your organisation’s seamless transition into a hybrid environment.

To find out more about HPE SimpliVity and the different ways it can help your organisation, please click here to get in touch with HPE’s Malaysian partner, Ingram Micro. You can also click here to get a quote.

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