The traditional approach to enterprise IT requires dedicated compute, networking and storage infrastructure, and siloed teams to manage it all. It often becomes the Achilles heel of IT operations and budgeting. Businesses demand security, control and performance – together with flexibility and agility. They need to ensure the integrity of their data while maintaining high performance. This is why most next-generation infrastructure companies are still selling individual boxes that are cheaper and faster than the incumbents, but have the same drawbacks.

Rinat Dequcinis, sales and marketing manager at Pedion Technologies, says companies need to start simplifying their IT infrastructure, and one way of doing this is to move to a single environment. "The technology went from being a three-tier environment of standalone infrastructure comprising servers, storage and networking, then went to a converged environment, where different vendors came together, now hyperconvergence is taking all of that and putting it into one box with a hypervisor layer.

"This means that the customer only has to manage one vendor instead of multiple suppliers. It also means they require one skillset instead of four different specialised skills."

The hypervisor layer allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical host and mediate all input/output operations.

Dequcinis says: "In the cloud era, customers should not have to manage or pay for hypervisor software as a piecemeal data centre component. Hypervisor is a free tool that provides all of the functionality of other, more expensive, tools. Even if the customer doesn't want a virtualisation tool, they can still use the hypervisor. It's all about the simplification of infrastructure and the data centre. It also makes it easier to manage remote sites as everything is on one platform.

"This is an open platform that's easy to migrate in and out of, giving customers the mobility and choice they desire instead of being trapped in the incumbency of any particular stack. There's a huge emphasis on building software and services around app mobility," says Dequcinis

A good example of where this capability is particularly useful is in the medical environment where there's a need for highly specialised applications such as those used for X-rays, for instance, to be able to integrate into other software.

Regardless of the size of the environment or whether you're looking at a corporate head office or multiple smaller remote branches, the experience should the same, says Dequcinis. "So you can tie multiple remote offices into the main data centre, for example. Inherent analytics provide advanced warning of imminent issues, and tells the business when it needs to upgrade and how much by. This allows businesses to start small, planning for their current requirements, and grow over time as they need to."