Minimize risk in your VDI implementations with Pivot3’s policy-based HCI

The IT infrastructure investments of yesteryear were fairly static rack-and-row compute, storage and networking. You invest and refresh every three to five years. Nothing ever changed. The passage of time and the explosion in technology have brought a commensurate need to modernize the IT infrastructure through software-defined infrastructure and hyperconverged appliances. Strategically, today’s IT infrastructure must offer greater access to more information. Indeed, IT infrastructure modernization is driven by faster computing speeds, greater scalability and more secure accessibility.

Whether you are considering an expansion of existing facilities, consolidation of multiple data center sites, or an acquisition or divestiture of data center assets, this session will cover some key points to mitigate risk, identify the infrastructure and operational health of assets, management and operations, lifecycle considerations, and the overall resiliency of key data center assets.

What’s in a name? In NVMe-OF’s case, quite a lot. What’s that, you say, apart from being a front-runner for technology’s worst acronym awards? Data centre transformation, is that better? No, of course it isn’t and with good reason. Infrastructure vendors have been telling us how important it is to refresh our data centre infrastructures for some time, as otherwise you won’t be able to reap the rewards of, you know the sort of thing, massively scalable analytics workloads, application consolidation, more dynamic infrastructure, greater business value and so on. Trouble is, for a wealth of reasons, few enterprises have the luxury of rip-and-replace transformation. And while processing and storage have moved forward at the speed of Moore’s Law, the pesky network has continued to slow everything else down. So, here’s the good news. The NVMe-OF protocol has emerged from the direct attached storage world as a way of connecting solid-state storage to processing at, well, the speed of light (OF stands for Over Fabric), essentially removing the bottleneck of data transfers.

The growing demands of enterprise applications and the fast pace of modern business threaten to put legacy IT design — with separate storage, storage networks and servers — at risk of failure. The silos created by traditional data centre infrastructure often present barriers to change and progress, adding complexity to every step from ordering to deployment to management. Together with Nutanix we deliver hyperconverged infrastructure that converges applications and workloads, storage and virtualisation into a resilient, easier to manage solution with strong machine intelligence. It reduces power usage and space, and dramatically eliminates storage complexity. The world’s most advanced enterprise data centres rely on Nutanix web-scale technology to power their mission-critical workloads at any scale.