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    Home » Company News » What would your business sacrifice for simplicity?

    What would your business sacrifice for simplicity?

    By Hewlett Packard Enterprise23 April 2021
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    We hear you: 2020 threw enough curveballs at us. It’s hard to blame any business tempted to cut a few corners for the sake of simplicity. Unless, of course, you’re talking about your IT infrastructure. Then we want to check what kind of “simple” you mean. The old kind of simple delivered a no-brainer agility boost — with stubborn headaches. The new kind of simple gives you:

    • Ultimate flexibility
    • Increased productivity
    • Lower costs
    • Time savings
    • Better user experiences
    • Faster time to market

    What are we talking about? The evolution of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).

    It’s simple, really.

    Anything for an easy life. That was the thinking behind HCI 1.0. The first generation of hyperconverged infrastructure combined server hardware and locally attached storage with intelligent software. You got (supposedly) hassle-free, flexible building blocks — think “plug and play” — instead of all those inefficient legacy servers, networks and storage arrays.

    Want more compute and storage? Just add another node.

    Great. Except what if you only need more storage or more compute right now, not both? Nope, sorry, with the old HCI you had to provision and pay for both. And what about those nagging performance and reliability concerns? Erm, never mind.

    You were paying for a compromise, basically. And that was fine. Operational simplicity. General purpose. Plug it in and forget about it.

    HCI 1.0 was “good enough”.

    What are you prepared to sacrifice for simplicity?

    Of course, nothing is ever that simple — 2020 has proved that in spectacular fashion.

    Some might say that lower performance and unconvincing uptime were always a recipe for disaster – or, at the very least, dissatisfied customers. And all those wasted resources were bound to raise eyebrows at some point.
    Times have changed. We’ve all had a wake-up call.

    Now HCI 1.0 is only good for businesses with unlimited budgets and limited imagination for risk, or, for that matter, opportunity.

    Introducing the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure

    Fortunately, innovation has risen to the occasion. Say hello to HCI 2.0.

    HCI 2.0 delivers all the benefits promised by HCI 1.0, and more. The crucial difference? With HCI 2.0, storage and compute are disaggregated. That means you can add as much — or as little — storage or compute as you need.

    Along with all that super-efficient, flexible scale, you also get enterprise-level speed and absolute resilience. HCI 2.0 takes just 15 minutes to deploy, from rack to apps , and boasts up to a 93% reduction in time spent to deploy, manage, and scale storage.

    That means your business can respond faster to changing conditions, without ever spending on storage or compute you don’t need.

    That new data hungry project you’re working on? Just add more storage. The compute-heavy app that’s going to help you seize market opportunity? Just add more compute.

    With HCI 2.0, you accelerate time to market — while putting the brakes on waste. And, because it’s underpinned by HPE Nimble Storage dHCI, you can do it all with 99.9999% availability.

    To make it even easier, all that ultra-flexible IT manages itself, with HPE InfoSight — our AI-powered autonomous monitoring and management platform. And, of course, there’s HPE’s market-leading support.

    Do any of these challenges sound familiar?

    Before you do anything else, take a look below and see if any of these resonate right now:

    I need to move a lot faster and put IT ahead of business initiatives for once.

    If I could get help and expertise with the routine stuff, our people could do so much more.

    I need to align our costs to business benefits, and I’m constrained by our capital budget.

    I’m worried about our ability to control performance, security, compliance, and our data.

    If it’s a “yes” to any or all of the above, then HCI 2.0 is designed for you. Increased business agility. Simpler IT. Lower costs. Proper control.

    Visit this website to find out how HPE HCI 2.0 can really make doing business simpler.

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