siliconindia | | July 20189sources desired to make your dreams come to reality is just a click away. The process is simple, Idea > devel-opment on cloud > product ready for testing. Hold on, before we make conclusion, there are a few gaps we need to be aware of. First, do we have the necessary connectiv-ity to the cloud? Sometimes, the quantum of bandwidth required is massive, especially if the location of cloud da-tacenter is outside of base country. Second, what matters is the duration for which the resources are desired, growth estimates and last, regulatory also matters. All these are manageable in case the user is a single person and wants fast outcomes or just wants to test their ideas. How-ever for organizations, they have to think on all the above aspects; do we have a solution which provides benefits of agility, scalability and cost, but at same time provides flexibility of choice to post workloads in house or on external cloud.Meet our new friend called Hy-brid Cloud. This encompasses putting workloads on resources of choice. If the project is critical, requires high uptime, faster deployment and must adhere to reg-ulatory norms, users can deploy their work-loads on their in-house (private) cloud, and for all other workloads, they can choose pub-lic cloud. Just a simple drag & drop can allow them to move their workloads seamless-ly between clouds as well. Sounds convenient? Well it is; all that is required is a trigger, and that trigger is Hyper Convergence.What makes HCI the most rapidly grow-ing enterprise tech-nology?To remain competitive in today's market, organizations are turning to IT to eliminate ineffi-ciencies, improve agility, and reduce risk by eliminating siloed IT infrastruc-tures and operating units. One of the ways organizations can enable digital transformation is to modernize their infrastructure via hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). HCI is also viewed by IT professionals as the technology most likely to help IT become more cloud-like, deliver-ing on-premises infrastructure as a service (ITaaS). In fact according to ESG research, 44 percent of IT profession-als surveyed said that they believed that hyper-converged infrastructure platforms give them the best chance to be-come more cloud-like and deliver ITaaS, while 29 per-cent believed that either converged or hyper-converged infrastructure platforms positioned them to become more cloud-like and deliver ITaaS.Hyper-Converged infrastructure is one of the most rapidly growing methods for deploying IT in the data center, as IT departments seek ways to adjust to their new role in business and new responsibilities entrusted on them. This market is growing at 60 percent YoY, as per analysts expected to touch $4 bil-lion by 2020.At what stage is the level of HCI adoption by enterprises?HCI is now a mainstream technolo-gy for the modern data center. IT organizations are look-ing beyond non-mis-sion-critical use cases for HCI deployment. They are choos-ing HCI for the high value it delivers to simplify infra-structure de-ployment and management, make more use of cloud ser-vices, scale for more data, and better support business applica-tions. In recent years, IT organi-Rajesh Ramnani
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