Synergy Creates Opportunities as a Bridge between Traditional, New IT

By Rod Knowles

A common question we hear from our clients and potential customers is how do they get from Point A to Point B? Meaning, they have invested significantly in traditional infrastructure, but they are lured by new technology that offers to open up new opportunities for their business. What are they to do?

Fortunately, our good partners at Hewlett Packard Enterprise have come through with the innovative Synergy portfolio, which breaks ground as composable infrastructure. Put more simply, this is a new architecture that allows you to construct your resources to your exact application needs, coupled with software-defined intelligence and a unified API.  HPE is the first manufacturer in the world to architect this kind of hybrid platform, which is the byproduct of thinking out of the box in how we build IT infrastructures.

Synergy closes that gap and integrates traditional IT environments, which are focused on operations drivers, with the new style of IT, which are more about applications and services. The upsides to all that are, new revenue streams and better customer experiences. 

Your tools in moving to that environment – which is the hallmark of the Idea Economy – are more about mobility, data analytics and cloud computing.  In other words, you can bring new products and services to market quicker with greater agility by utilizing composable infrastructure.

Let’s look at three key benefits:

• Operational velocity: Imagine needing to modify only a single line of code to maximize your business information – with the data center operating as the heart of any sized company – and put your data to work for you in an instant.

• Frictionless IT: Synergy is the ingredient that makes everything work together seamlessly, maximizing the horsepower of your legacy systems and opening the door to new technology. This provides the framework for your DevOps, pushing your business to advanced levels of collaboration and automation.

• Reduce costs: Take better advantage of cloud capabilities, gaining efficiency and ensuring you are maximizing every resource. Plus, Synergy is designed for easy scalability to grow with your business. 

Why Synergy? And why now?
Today’s marketplace calls for businesses to increasingly deliver services that are application centric, according to our colleagues at HPE. In the battle to remain relevant, businesses need to harness the reliability and cost-efficiency of legacy systems, but tap into greater flexibility and speed.

As Antonio Neri, executive vice president at HPE, puts it: “Market data clearly shows that a hybrid combination of traditional IT and private clouds will dominate the market over the next five years. Organizations are looking to capitalize on the speed and agility of the cloud but want the reliability and security of running business critical applications in their own datacenters. With HPE Synergy, IT can deliver infrastructure as code and give businesses a cloud experience in their data center."

What Synergy can do for you
With two of our CTG engineers among the first 100 individuals worldwide to earn certification in this new platform, we quickly recognized how Synergy is bringing breakthrough innovation to our industry. Trust us to show you how this platform can be integrated into your infrastructure and transform your business to seize untapped opportunities.

Rod Knowles is a solutions architect at Convergent Technologies Group.

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