Modernizing Compute Infrastructure

Why modernize?

What's required?

IT decision makers expect the typical application portfolio to grow by 50%.¹

By 2023...

...80% of workloads will be based on containers/microservices...

...reducing per-app infrastructure needs by 60%...

...while driving a 70% improvement in digital service resiliency.²

Today, applications are your business. They drive improved customer engagement, operational efficiency, competitiveness and new revenue streams. Applications are also becoming more virtualized, microservice-based and hyper-distributed across on-prem, multicloud and edge infrastructure.

Achieving the critical reliability, availability and predictable performance you need requires a modern, end-to-end infrastructure—an infrastructure that is self-monitoring, self-analyzing, and self-optimizing.

Programmable, software-defined infrastructure

Automation

Management

Orchestration

Analytics

A common, programmable foundation

Digital and IT transformation demand that enterprises modernize their compute infrastructure to achieve unprecedented levels of performance, flexibility, scale, and intelligence.

This requires a portfolio of systems—scale up or out, rack or blade servers, converged, hyperconverged and software-defined storage infrastructures—all based on a common, programmable foundation. Infrastructure resources must be easy to secure and provision, while supporting modern automation, orchestration, management and analytics tools.

Analytics-enabled continuous optimization

Each business application already has 4 to 8 application dependencies.¹

51% of IT buyers expect high application interdependencies over the next two years (versus 21% today).¹

~40% of operational processes will be self-healing and self-learning by 2022.²

Applications power businesses, and enterprises that want to provide more engaging digital experiences for their customers invest continually to deliver innovative applications. And in the current world environment of remote working and always-on digital lives, application experiences are more important than ever. But managing different infrastructure platforms to support distributed applications, ensuring application experiences, as well as making decisions on cost and placement is not easy. IT teams are struggling with all this complexity.

Hybrid cloud and edge-enabled

93% of cloud adopters intend to use multiple clouds in the next 12 months.¹

50% of all new infrastructure will be deployed at the edge by 2023.²

47% of applications will be built using containers and microservices over the next two years.³

58%+ of compute and storage resources will reside at remote/edge or provider data centers within two years.³

Gone are the days when applications and infrastructure were located only at the data center. Today’s digital demands require the ability to run across many clouds and a smarter, more powerful edge. Every cloud and every edge infrastructure must be able to run any application securely and with predictable performance.

Today’s edge must also be powerful enough to run today’s modern, compute-intensive applications and perform near-real-time analytics on your most valuable resource: your data. Edge analytics are transforming possibilities in retail, factories, healthcare, cities and more.

Pervasive security

13%

73%

86% of malicious payloads are delivered through email or web.¹

76% of security teams’ time is spent securing the data center.²

It takes an average of 197 days for businesses to detect a data breach.³

A more distributed, data center-to-multicloud-to-edge infrastructure creates more vulnerabilities and entry points for today’s stealthy cyberthreats.

Strong perimeter security at your data center is no longer enough. Comprehensive security requires a multi-layered strategy, including network segmentation, intelligent threat detection and prevention, faster response capabilities and more. A modern security strategy requires an infrastructure that isn’t simply an exposure point to threats, but is instead a proactive defense system that protects against threats.

Management and operations on a global scale

Architectures are changing rapidly

By 2023, over 50% of new enterprise infrastructure deployed will be at the edge.¹

Data overload

IT operations are challenged by the rapid growth in the data that must be captured, analyzed and acted on.²

Simplified management

50% of core enterprise data centers will leverage AI and ML to transform maintenance by 2023.³

How do you manage an infrastructure that’s distributed everywhere—residing on-prem, within multiple clouds and across a broad expanse of edge locations?

You need flexible management tools that provide visibility and insight, and that can quickly take action on a global scale. The software must enable you to actively monitor, optimize, orchestrate, and operate any workload across any infrastructure or environment.