NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the
chief reasons moving data to the cloud is so appealing is that it
gives enterprise IT organizations the ability to shift
infrastructure payments from significant capital outlays to a more
modest operational expense (op-ex) that scales up or down according
to actual usage. Industry experts say the majority of all IT
purchases will be made on this kind of op-ex, cloud-like,
subscription basis within the next four years, which begs the
question: What if you could have that same op-ex payment structure
for your on-premise data center infrastructure today?
Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services
provider (www.us.logicalis.com), says, with HPE's Flexible Capacity
solution, that's both possible and practical for organizations that
are committed to maintaining some on-premise workloads for the
foreseeable future.
"While workloads are definitely moving to the cloud and the
desire for that kind of consumption-based model is fueling the
pace, the need for hybrid and on-premise infrastructure is still
very real," says Brett Anderson,
Senior Director, HPE Solutions, Logicalis US. "As a result, CIOs
whose workloads are better suited to hybrid or on-premise
environments may want to re-examine how they are managing their
on-prem resources with the expectation that they can achieve the
same kind of financial and capacity flexibility that a public cloud
has to offer."
What About Leasing?
Historically, leasing has been the
way to move on-premise data center infrastructure from cap-ex to
op-ex costs. While leasing does offer advantages in some
cases, experts say there are two problems with leasing that a
Flexible Capacity solution can resolve. First, in a
traditional lease, organizations order the hardware they need today
and what they think they'll need two to five years into the future,
paying for all of it starting on day one. The assets remain fixed
throughout the life of the lease which means there's no ability to
scale up or down as business needs change. Second, in a traditional
lease, there are no infrastructure management services included,
which means these services must be either be provided in house or
purchased from a third party separately, adding additional monthly
costs.
HPE's Flexible Capacity, a twist on the traditional lease,
offers a creative solution to both of these issues. Rather than
overprovisioning up front – and paying now – to meet future demand,
under the Flexible Capacity model, the goal is to architect a
solution that meets the organization's current baseline
requirements plus a defined degree of anticipated growth, but not
pay for that growth until it's used.
With a built-in monitoring service, organizations gain the
ability to burst up and scale back as business needs change – just
as they would in a public cloud – and to have their monthly bill
reflect only that capacity that is actually being consumed.
This is an ideal solution for companies that are experiencing
significant growth, are undergoing business transformation, or who
have seasonal workload demands. This also works well when an
organization wants to roll out consistent data center solutions –
server, storage, hyperconverged – in multiple locations over time;
the solutions can be designed and delivered all at once, ensuring
commonality across sites or regions while each site's billing
begins only when the solution is powered up.
"In particular, Flexible Capacity is a great play for
hyperconverged solutions because you're getting a combination of
compute capacity, network capacity, memory and storage capacity,
which means you can easily grow by simply turning on additional
nodes," Anderson says. "If you need 12 nodes, for example, we might
deliver a solution that has 16, but not charge you for the
additional four until you start using them."
Additionally, Flexible Capacity financing allows organizations
to roll in proactive infrastructure management services from HPE.
These services – which include monitoring, patching, firmware
updates and pre-failure event mediation – allow the IT department
to offload the daily care and management of their on-prem data
center infrastructure just as they would with a public cloud
service.
Five Truths About Flexible Capacity
Before this kind
of solution was available, CIOs who needed to maintain on-prem
workloads struggled with the demands of the business for
scalability and the budgetary restrictions for delivering
top-of-the-line hardware at an affordable monthly price. To
help IT pros determine if a Flexible Capacity solution is right for
their organizations, Logicalis has identified five important truths
to consider.
- Hybrid Rules: While cloud-based workloads are growing
faster than on-prem workloads, when the total capacity of
on-prem IT is compared to cloud-based IT, on-prem still accounts
for the lion's share – something experts say means hybrid solutions
will dominate for the foreseeable future.
- The Best of Both Worlds: A Flexible Capacity financing
solution gives organizations a way to reduce capital outlays for
on-prem solutions, delivering a cloud-like operational expense with
a dynamic pool of capacity for on-prem hardware.
- On-Prem Scalability: A Flexible Capacity solution gives
CIOs the ability to scale up or down as needed without bursting to
the cloud – a flexible consumption opportunity.
- Proactive Asset Management: IT pros get regular
consumption reports that help them develop predictive models for
future capacity planning.
- An End-to End Solution: Flexible Capacity solutions can
be applied to all aspects of the data center's infrastructure
requirements – from storage to servers, memory and the
network.
Want to Learn More?
- Learn how Logicalis Financial Services can help CIOs expand
their IT purchasing options: http://ow.ly/gZvs305wS5m.
- Read this blog that discusses what "digital transformation"
means to CIOs worldwide, then find out what over 700 CIOs around
the world consider their biggest challenges as they work to become
digital organizations: http://ow.ly/ZdZE305wRH6.
- Have you reached the proverbial fork in the road when it comes
to storage solutions? The demands for data storage have never been
more demanding; explore data and storage management topics on the
Logicalis US website: http://ow.ly/Zktq305wSmG.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international
multi-skilled solution provider providing digital enablement
services to help customers harness digital technology and
innovative services to deliver powerful business outcomes.
Our customers cross industries and geographical regions; our
focus is to engage in the dynamics of our customers' vertical
markets including financial services, TMT (telecommunications,
media and technology), education, healthcare, retail, government,
manufacturing and professional services, and to apply the skills of
our 4,000 employees in modernizing key digital pillars, data center
and cloud services, security and network infrastructure, workspace
communications and collaboration, data and information strategies,
and IT operation modernization.
We are the advocates for our customers for some of the world's
leading technology companies including Cisco, HPE, IBM, NetApp,
Microsoft, VMware and ServiceNow.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of over $1.5 billion from operations in Europe, North
America, Latin America and
Asia Pacific. It is a division of
Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the
AIM market of the LSE, with revenues of over $6.5 billion.
For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.
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