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SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

Take Control of Your Remote Offices

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ROBOs play a critical role wherever establishing a local or regional physical presence helps businesses increase customer loyalty, expand into new areas of opportunity, or get products to market faster and more cost effectively.

More than half of organizations operate at least 50 or more ROBOs worldwide. 153%

37%Over one-third of midmarket companies list improvement of service delivery for ROBOs among their top 5 priorities over the next 12-18 months. 2

W H A T ’ S A R O B O A N Y W A Y ?

Remote Office Branch Office

or other dedicated locations connected to headquarters and/or other corporate locations

via a wide area network (WAN).

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“Remote site IT woes, such as the lack of readily available IT staff, painfully impact businesses in numerous ways, according to the IDG Research survey. Those include decreased end-user satisfaction (cited by 61% of poll respondents), lost productivity (56%), and increased network and management costs (52%).” 3

Take Control:Centralized or Distributed IT?ROBOs come in all shapes and sizes: sales/service offices, corporate branches, distribution centers, manufacturing plants and even mobile mission-critical sites.

Given the goals for which ROBOs are established, the business productivity of “front-line” employees should be on par with those working in centralized sites—supported by IT services and afforded high levels of performance and reliability.

There are two typical approaches to ROBO IT.

Decreased end-user satisfaction

Lost productivity

Increased network/management costs

61%

56%

52%

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Centralized Approach

Services are delivered by skilled IT staff at a centralized location over a WAN. Infrastructure used to run applications may be located at the centralized location or in the cloud through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) / IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS).

Penetration of SaaS at ROBOs is low—in fact, five years from now, only about a quarter of companies will be using SaaS. 1

Infrastructure is distributed across ROBOs with local delivery of services—typically by just a few (if any) IT professionals. Only one in five ROBOs has on-site staff. 1

Distributed Approach

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Application PerformanceLatency problems with business-critical and customer-facing applications can occur during high-volume WAN periods or run less efficiently when maintenance updates are delayed.

Availability and reliability may be jeopardized by intermittent network outages—especially in more remote and rural areas in emerging markets.

Centralized Control of ROBOs: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

Forty four percent (44%) of companies surveyed say applications with higher performance requirements, such as accounting and financial applications will remain local. 1

Global Management across ROBO Environments

With limited or non-existent skilled on-site resources, the burden of ROBO management falls to centralized IT. Visibility across ROBOs with a multitude of different products is fragmented.

Delays in deployment of new applications can limit revenue-generating opportunities at the ROBO – and put the organization at a competitive disadvantage.

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Fifty six percent (56%) of companies leverage remote backup to back up ROBO data.1

Distributed Control: Risky Business?Data Protection

RPO and RTO are dependent on the speed of the WAN and quantity of data being passed. On-premises backup solutions managed by unskilled ROBO staff introduces increased risk and cost.

WAN Efficiency and Costs

Lack of available WAN infrastructure in many remote sites slows file transfer speed. Controlling costs of network bandwidth (and any optimization hardware to augment it) is challenging given the ever-growing volumes of data passing over the WAN.

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)The addition of new componentized systems requires more physical space and specialized staffing—which, if unavailable, puts constraints on scalability. Uncoordinated buying cycles can mean that potential savings are missed.

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With traditional infrastructure, each ROBO is like a separate island OR requires expensive, hard-to-manage, multi-vendor solutions.

That’s why businesses are moving to converged infrastructure. 1

Converged Control:Get Your Cake and Eat It Too?IT teams in businesses with a distributed ROBO model are making the necessary investments of time and staff to integrate best-of-breed components themselves—or buy components like pre-integrated storage and servers.

Others are moving directly to hyperconverged infrastructure that generalists in distributed ROBO sites can manage themselves.

HCIS [HYPERCONVERGED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS]

PROVIDES SUBSTANTIAL BENEFITS TO A ROBO. THEIR

BUILT-IN DATA SERVICES PROVIDE AUTOMATIC HA FOR

DATA. POLICY-DRIVEN DATA MANAGEMENT FEATURES

ENSURE THAT DATA IS BACKED UP OR REPLICATED TO A

CENTRAL DATA CENTER. DEDUPLICATION REDUCES

DISK COSTS. AND A UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE WITH

EASY, CENTRALIZED CONTROL ALLOWS NON-EXPERTS

TO DEPLOY AND MANAGE HCIS. THIS IS ESPECIALLY

ATTRACTIVE IN A REMOTE LOCATION, WHERE SKILLED

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS ARE NOT AVAILABLE. 2

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Take Control of Your ROBOs: SimpliVity Hyperconverged InfrastructureSimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure represents a quantum leap beyond early forms of convergence and hyperconvergence, changing the infrastructure paradigm on three dimensions: data efficiency, global unified management, and built-in data protection.

All IT components are combined in a single shared resource poolof commodity x86 resources—not just servers and storage, but the entire legacy stack, combining all infrastructure and services “below the hypervisor.”

This enables a scalable, modular building block approach that not only controls upfront capital investment, but also reduces OpEx. For distributed

environments, multiple hyperconverged infrastructure building blocks across data centers combine to form a federation, resulting in a massively-scalable, shared resource pool, and enabling efficient data movement and enterprise-class system availability. All resources contained in the collective federation are managed centrally.

Accelerated Data Efficiency

Experience 40:1 data efficiency and

increase application performance

with global inline deduplication

accross all storage tiers.

Global Unified Management

Improve IT agility with policy-based

VM-centric management

abstracted from the underlying

hardware and efficient VM mobility.

Built-in Data Protection

Improved RPO and RTO with

hyper-efficient local and remote

backups and do away with legacy

data protection tools.

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SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure offers distinct advantages over more conventional infrastructure choices by delivering next-generation IT infrastructure that delivers improved application performance; faster and more reliable data protection; greater WAN efficiency and effectiveness; global management across ROBO environments from a central console; and ease of scale to meet growth demands—all while dramatically reducing costs.

The SimpliVity Advantage

ROBO Requirements

Lower TCO and

increased efficiency

Deliver improved,

consistent application

performance

Mitigate risk of

downtime & data loss

at ROBOs

Maximize the efficiency

& effectiveness of

existing WAN

Extend and simplify

global management of

all ROBO environments

Enable sustainable

growth

ROBO Benefits

Introduces significant CapEx and

OpEx savings.

Improves service delivery by ensuring

business-critical applications get the

resources required.

Improves RPOs and RTOs, while

reducing costs.

Improves return on WAN Investment

and delivers more reliable data

transfer between sites.

Eliminates the need for ROBO based

IT staff and increases IT productivity.

Introduces agility to capture new

business opportunities.

SimpliVity Unified Protected ROBO Solution

SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure eliminated the

need to purchase multiple discrete components and the IT

resources to run them; reduces requirements for storage (by

90%), as well as power, cooling and data center floor space.

Deduplication identifies redundant data segments, writing

only unique data and eliminating subsequent writes to

HDD-effectively deduplicating IO.

Built-in data protection eliminated the need for backup and

recovery hardware and software in the central data center

and at the ROBO, and enables automated VM-centric

backup and VM file-level recovery.

Accelerated data efficiency improves bandwidth utilization

and eliminates the need for specialized WAN optimization

appliances.

Global Unified Management enables centralized

administration of all IT resources and VMs from a single,

familiar interface.

Provides a single, scalable pool of shared x86 resources that

be easily expanded to extend capacity and performance.

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure: A Perfect Fit for Remote and Branch Officeshttp://demand.simplivity.com/ROBO-Whitepaper

Dig In To ROBO Control

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Sources:1 ESG Research Report, Remote Office/Branch Office Technology Trends, May 2015.2 Gartner, Deploying Hyperconverged Integrated Systems: Eight Great Use Cases, May 2015.3 IDG Research cited in Citrix, Long-distance IT: Driving Efficiency in Remote Offices, 2014.

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