Converged Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure can improve agility, efficiency and IT service quality. If you find your organization missing deadlines or struggling to respond fast enough to customer demands — if you lack sufficient budget to deliver on critical business initiatives or have to manage trade-offs among IT benefits — you’re not alone. These are increasingly common problems in IT, and convergence is increasingly acknowledged as an effective approach for addressing these challenges.

Converged infrastructure solutions provide some essential benefits:

• Reduced cost of running applications
• Faster infrastructure deployments
• Simplicity and speed of management
• Improved time-to-value for application and cloud deployments

When you deploy new applications or support new IT initiatives, you often face numerous trade-offs. Closed architectures, vendor-lock-in, custom integration from multiple vendors or steep learning curves are just a few of the obstacles you may encounter.

Most solutions on the market focus on the infrastructure alone. But convergence is much more — it’s a strategic approach that touches every part of IT: infrastructure, operations, applications and service. With an ideal convergence solution, you can respond more rapidly to business needs, maximize efficiency in your data center and IT teams and strengthen IT service quality.

We can help. Our Active Infrastructure family combines servers, storage, networking and management into converged systems that give you general-purpose, virtualized resource pools. Learn more about our Active Infrastructure family that includes:

• Pre-integrated Systems
• Active Platform Architectures
• Active System Matrix

We also offer Active Solution Architectures built upon the Dell Active Infrastructure family to support private cloud, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or application initiatives.