Gartner highlights the trends for data center, cloud, and edge
In an era in which speed is critical for customers’ businesses, technology complexity continues to slow organizations down. Many IT organizations are looking to modernize their Edge to Cloud center infrastructure to optimize costs and support existing as well as next-generation applications. Customers who have built a cloud infrastructure on-premises (Private, managed, and Hybrid Cloud) must deal with the inconsistency of operations, infrastructure silos, and potentially an increase in the complexity of their operations. They may also need to update their organizational skills to keep up with current trends. Technology is changing at a rapid pace. Every 3 years, performance doubles for the underlying hardware. When combined with new software innovation, there is a tremendous performance improvement. New AI/ML workloads are exploding, it is projected that the number of containerized instances will rise by 4.5 times in the next 4 years. There will be more challenges such as managing virtual machines and containers together, efficiently and cost-effectively. IT organizations will need to rise to the challenge and support these modern workloads. Let us look at why we believe every company needs to have a data center modernization strategy.
Data center modernization strategy
Today’s IT strategy demands Data Center Modernization to be the key outcome due to recurring scalability pains with old data center technology (3-Tier Architecture). The new data center infrastructure needs to:
- Support new workloads such as AI/ML and support traditional apps on the same platform.
- Deliver intelligent operations that offer security and compliance, meet SLAs, and optimize the use of existing resources.
- Provide a self-service DevOps infrastructure for greater productivity!
- Ensuring security across all layers of the infrastructure stack
There is a need to refresh the age-old (typically 3-5 yrs.) data center infrastructure.
Below are the benefits of considering data center modernization with VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and Intel Xeon 4th or 5th Gen platform:
- Up to Cost 60%+ Savings when you combine with vSAN HCI.
- 77% gain in operational efficiency
- 20% reduction in issue resolution time
- 5X reduction in relative downtime
- 100% reduction in last-minute hardware cost
- Lower TCO, Operate Efficiently
- Increased Performance
- End-to-End Security and Compliance
- Support for Next-Gen workloads like AI and HPC – AI Ready Infrastructure
- Support for Optimized VM and Containers – Private and Hybrid Cloud deployments!
How much I save, going from Older Generation to Newer Generation Intel Platforms
To quantify your savings VMware and Intel have a value modeler tool to provide you the savings from our joint solution, featuring VMware vSphere Foundation, combined with the latest Intel Gen 4 or Gen 5 servers. Following are the savings; you don’t want to miss out on.
- Boost performance for the existing applications with in-built Accelerators.
- Increased Server Consolidation ratio.
- Accelerated Network Performance for your critical workloads.
- Room to add Next-Generation workloads.
- Licensing and Power savings (Sustainability efforts)
Below is an example of how you can achieve data center consolidation savings.
This is a comparison running aging Intel Gen 1 or 2 servers with older vSphere in a 3-tier architecture. When you deploy the joint Intel and VMware solution, you will gain significant savings by refreshing to new Intel Gen 4 or Gen 5 hardware and renewing to latest vSphere. Here is a summary of the key findings from Gen 1 to Gen 4:
- Up to Cost 60%+ Savings when you combine with vSAN HCI.
- TCO Savings of approx. 64% with break-even 2 months
- Host reduction from 70%, resulting in ~ 50% power and footprint savings
What are you waiting for?
It’s time to get started with your data center modernization plan. Start by assessing and discovering what is needed to run your business successfully, then create a plan to execute your data center modernization strategy.
Please reach out to your Intel or VMware technical professionals or ‘Trusted advisors’ to help and be part of your data center modernization journey. Let us begin to build your Modern center infrastructure!
Bibliography:
- Morgan Stanley: What’s New in the ‘New Stack’? Our Updated Server Workload Model Forecasts 622 million Apps by 2027, July 2023
- The Total Economic Impact™ Of VMware Cloud Foundation Operations, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of VMware, published April 2024
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