Chris Weis is a global technical solutions architect and CI team lead at WWT with over 15 years of experience in IT. He specializes in converged, hyper-converged, and rack-scale hyper-converged technologies. The presentation discusses the market trends of integrating infrastructure products into converged and hyper-converged solutions to simplify implementation and improve efficiency. It also outlines the different types of converged infrastructure technologies and how they align with organizations' needs. The presentation encourages leveraging WWT's Advanced Technology Center to evaluate various converged infrastructure solutions.

1. Comprehending the
Convolution of Converged
Infrastructure

2. Chris.Weis@WWT.com
319-321-3694
@ccweis
about.me/chris.weis
Chris Weis
Global Technical Solutions Architect, CI Team Lead
• 15+ yeas of experience in IT services, sales,
management, and business development
• Specializing in converged, hyper-converged, and
rack-scale hyper-converged technologies
FUN FACTS
• I live in Iowa
• Father of two energetic boys
• I’m a recreational cyclist, runner, and
photographer

3. PRESENTATION TAKEAWAYS
Understand the
market and
technology
movement toward
Converged
Infrastructure
Understand the
different types of
Converged
Infrastructure and
how they align to
different IT problems
and organizations
Leverage the WWT
Advanced Technology
Center to evaluate
Converged
Infrastructure
solutions

4. Market Trends
• Integrating standalone products
is hard – ain’t nobody got time
for that.
• SaaS and IaaS are good fits for
some applications but not for
most of the apps that exist in
enterprise datacenters today.
• CI and HCI can provide simplified
implementation, better
operational efficiency and much
lower risk.
All IT
~$2.7T
+2% CAGR
On Prem
Infrastructure
~$1T
-3% CAGR
SERVERS
NETWORK
STORAGE
-6% CAGR
-2% CAGR
-8% CAGR
CI
HCI
+20%
CAGR
+100% CAGR
SaaS
+60%
CAGR
Cloud Native
AWS
Azure
+60%
CAGR

5. Technology Trends
Reference Architectures
(FlexPod, FlashStack, SmartStack, VersaStack)

HCI Appliances
(HyperFlex, vSAN-Ready Nodes, 3rd Party)

Converged Systems
(VxBlock and Vblock)

From Build to Buy
FromScale-UptoScale-Out
Hyper-Converged Rack-Scale
Systems
(VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack, OpenStack)

SimplifiedManagement

6. Technology Sweet Spots
Reference Architectures
Mixed Workloads
Physical Workloads
Maximum HW and SW
Flexibility
Siloed IT Teams
Deep Technical
Capabilities
Ability to run test and
integration labs
Converged Systems
Dedicated Workloads
Physical Workloads
Mission Critical Apps
Siloed IT Teams
Simplified Support Model
White Glove Experience
Accelerated Time to
Production
Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure
Scale-out Workloads
Limited OPEX
Single Virtualization Team
Ease of Use
Limited HW and SW
Flexibility
Ability to run test and
integration labs
Hyper-Converged
Integrated Systems
Scale-out Workloads
Single Virtualization Team
Ease of Use
Mission Critical Apps
Simplified Support Model
White Glove Experience
Accelerated Time to
Production

7. WWT’s Advanced Technology Center

8. PRESENTATION TAKEAWAYS
Understand the
market and
technology
movement toward
Converged
Infrastructure
Understand the
different types of
Converged
Infrastructure and
how they align to
different IT problems
and organizations
Leverage the WWT
Advanced Technology
Center to evaluate
Converged
Infrastructure
solutions

9. THANK YOU
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