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Solving Challenges in the Financial Industry with Hyperconverged Infrastructure

HCI can help banks, credit unions and capital market firms stay nimble, enhance security and better serve their customers.

By Michelle Rottschafer  and Staci Smith
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August 20, 2020
Data Center, Digital Workspace

As companies across industries have discovered in recent years, hyperconverged infrastructure offers simplicity and scalability in the data center. While these benefits are important for almost any business, HCI can be particularly useful for financial firms.

Here are three ways HCI can help banks, credit unions and capital market firms face down common challenges in the industry.

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How IT Modernization Solves 5 Common Business Problems

To build effective IT environments, organizations should begin with their goals in mind.

By Tim Keating
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July 31, 2020
Cloud, Data Center

IT modernization is a broad category that encompasses solutions ranging from hybrid cloud and multicloud environments to containerization, hyperconvergence and flash storage. With so many organizations in need of an infrastructure refresh, it’s understandable that high-level conversations about enterprise IT often start with the need to modernize technology environments.

But really, this approach is backward. Instead, business and IT leaders should begin with the problems they’re experiencing, and then look to see how modernized IT solutions can address them. Here are five common business issues associated with aging data centers, along with modern IT solutions that can address them. If your organization is dealing with any of these, it may be time to consider how to go about modernizing your IT infrastructure.

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The Core of the Connected Campus

Modern data center and networking solutions are necessary to support the applications that students and faculty demand.

By Dave Genton
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April 6, 2020
Data Center, Cloud, Networking, Security

The connected campus can have a number of benefits for colleges and universities, ranging from improved security to enhanced collaboration — and, of course, it can create a competitive edge in student and faculty recruitment. But to enable effective end-user solutions, institutions must first invest in the networking and data center infrastructure necessary to power them.

Colleges and universities looking to provide students and faculty with a robust connected-campus experience should explore the following infrastructure solutions and practices.

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How Hyperconvergence Powers Digital Transformation

Hyperconverged infrastructure provides many of the benefits that organizations are already chasing as part of their digital transformation initiatives.

By Chris Gibes
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March 9, 2020
Data Center

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is the fastest-growing category in data center infrastructure. The reasons for this are clear: This technology eliminates silos, simplifies management and enables scalability — three benefits that organizations need to support their digital transformation initiatives.

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Building a Data Center Roadmap

With automation and multicloud technologies impacting the data center, management services become more important.

By Urban Haas
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October 16, 2019
Data Center

Data centers have changed quite a bit since pizza boxes reigned supreme. We replaced those servers with virtualization, reducing our physical footprint and utilizing more of the CPUs and memory. Next came the idea of fully tested systems in the form of converged infrastructure: making sure different components of compute, storage and networking worked well…

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You’ve Implemented Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Now What?

For many organizations, deploying HCI is the start of a larger effort to transform and simplify the data center.

By Michael Lapetino
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August 19, 2019
Data Center

Often, I hear people talk about hyperconverged infrastructure as though it’s still an emerging, almost experimental solution. But the reality is that many organizations have deployed hyperconvergence — which combines storage, computing and networking into a single system — for years. As these organizations have learned, HCI can have a significant impact on their IT…

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