BrandPost: How hybrid infrastructure fuels IT velocity

In today’s economy, IT departments’ success often hinges on the ability to turn ideas into innovative applications and services faster than the competition. It’s a tough challenge, given the rigidity and complexity of many data centers. So it’s not surprising that businesses of all sizes are looking for infrastructure that’s faster, simpler and more maneuverable.

The search is complicated by the need to support two separate and conflicting operating models. First, there’s the traditional applications that are critical to the business – enterprise resource planning, on-line transaction processing, databases – with SLAs and objectives defined around reliability and stability. These keep-the-lights-on applications typically consume most of IT’s spend. IT is tasked with reducing their operational cost and complexity, improving efficiency, and above all else, keeping them running.

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