South African organisations are starting to shift away from buying discrete storage, server, virtualisation and networking solutions towards purchasing ‘converged infrastructure’ offerings that tie the pieces together in a single, pre-integrated solution.

Converged infrastructure solutions are available from most enterprise computing infrastructure vendors, including the likes of HP, IBM, Oracle, Dell, Cisco, EMC, NetApp, VMware, VCE, Microsoft and Intel. They’re meant to be more efficient to deploy, and easier to run and manage than solutions made up of elements bought separately from multiple vendors.