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Logicalis US: Converged Infrastructure is the Solution to Shadow ITNEW YORK, April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Experts predict 83 percent of enterprise organizations will expand or implement a converged infrastructure (CI) in the next 12 months.1 According to Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (www.us.logicalis.com), tech-savvy CIOs have always known CI offers a myriad of technical and business advantages; what's changing is how CI is being used – and these new implementations can quite literally spell relief for CIOs' shadow IT woes. Targeting converged infrastructures to run mission-critical applications and workloads like VDI or mobility is a perfect example: The organization gets the benefits of a converged infrastructure where they're needed most, and the CIO establishes a high-performing working model that can be extended incrementally throughout the organization as time and resources allow. To help IT pros explore this option, Logicalis is offering a downloadable white paper, "Converged Infrastructure for Targeted Workloads: Using Converged Infrastructures to Catapult Your IT Environment into the Future of Computing." "CIOs are feeling the pressure from line-of-business managers who need new applications and computing resources to do their jobs and expect the IT staff to deliver these things on demand," says Brett Anderson, Director of Cloud and Data Center Solutions, Logicalis US. "Instead of having the IT staff build out these systems in house, many savvy IT leaders have discovered that a converged infrastructure offers them a pre-built, highly reliable infrastructure that speeds the deployment of these applications and IT services, freeing their department to concentrate on ways to better support the business as a whole. Using CI as a foundational platform to deliver targeted, high-profile, business-critical solutions like VDI or mobility allows CIOs to deliver the business-productivity tools their users need in a much more timely manner than they've been able to do before. And when combined with the right IT service management tools – including automation and orchestration capabilities – targeted CI solutions like HP ConvergedSystem for Virtualization, for example, deliver the kind of measurable, reportable business benefits that make IT an even more valued partner wihin the organization and shadow IT a thing of the past." Additionally, the basic principles of a converged infrastructure – simplicity, standardization, flexibility, performance and quality control – also resonate with the basic principles of Six Sigma and other management approaches that CEOs and CFOs are adopting to accomplish business agility. In many ways, a converged infrastructure could be described as the IT counterpart to business agility. 12 Reasons to Use CI for Targeted Workloads
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1 Forrester Research About Logicalis Logicalis employs over 3,800 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex IT infrastructures to meet the needs of almost 6,000 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, EMC, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and ServiceNow. The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of $1.6 billion from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific and is one of the leading IT and communications solution integrators specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and services. The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of approximately $6 billion. For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com. Business and technology working as one Media contacts: Karen Franse, Communication Strategy Group for Logicalis US Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130828/MM71035LOGO-a To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/logicalis-us-converged-infrastructure-is-the-solution-to-shadow-it-300068693.html SOURCE Logicalis US |