Virtualization and Cloud executives share their predictions for 2016. Read them in this 8th Annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Sim Upadhyayula, Director, Solutions Enablement at Supermicro
Hyper-Convergence and IoT – 2016 is the Year it All Comes Together: To Master Analytics and Intelligence from Edge to Cloud Business Need a Unified Platform Provider
Hyper Convergence - Increased Acceptance Leading to Efficiency Gains
The year 2016 could very well be the year when a
majority of IT users - enterprise, service provider and SMB alike will
be looking at deploying hyper-converged systems in their datacenters
either greenfield or brownfield for the speed and agility, decreased
complexity and increased cost savings.
Hyper-convergence now probably is the most
overused term after Software defined "everything" (SDX). True hyper
convergence is an infrastructure that supports virtual workloads,
seamlessly combining all the IT components and services below the
hypervisor
into an x86 building block. There is no more management of discrete
devices or understanding of complex technologies like SAN. It has all
the ingredients to radically simplify the IT infrastructure, making
operations more streamlined and efficient while improving
on the speed and agility of deploying resources and reducing the total
cost of operation.
2016 will shape up to be the year where IT
departments look for hyper-converged solutions that provide them with a
scalable, centrally managed, application centric, single-shared pool of
x86 resources and a single vendor solution for increased control.
Tier one solution providers such as Supermicro with the broadest array
of certified and validated hyper-converged solutions is committed to
helping its customers embark on this business expanding opportunity.
IoT will Transform our Lives in Work, Home and Security
As more and more devices are connected via the
Internet, sharing information in real time, 2016 will be a year when
business sectors such as manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and
security will see a major surge in sensors that gather and relay
mountains of data to devices for storage, analytics and
corrective/predictive action. Businesses will invest more in
applications to help analyze and act upon the vast amounts of data
collected leading to higher efficiency, longer life cycles and building
better quality products and processes. Sensors and connected appliances
will drive the same efficiency, reliability and security into our homes
and communities too. Supermicro's family of high performance embedded
building blocks and IoT appliances along with
high density storage optimized server solutions will help businesses
efficiently and cost effectively ingest, analyze and improve processes
for robust, reliable and secure environments.
For more information on a full range of solutions, visit www.supermicro.com
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About the Author
Sim Upadhyayula is the Director, Solutions
Enablement at Supermicro. Sim works closely with large enterprise and
service provider customers in understanding their datacenter needs and
enables them to deploy Supermicro solutions optimized for their compute,
networking and storage needs. At Supermicro, Sim leads technology
enablement and evangelization efforts along with enjoying concurrent
product marketing functions.