Infrastructure Transformation
Understanding the Software-Defined Transformation:
Software-defined infrastructure is the definition of technical computing infrastructure entirely under the control of software with no human intervention. It operates independent of hardware-specific dependencies and is programmatically extensible.
Why Software-defined Infrastructure matters in today’s business?
| Hardware Defined | Software Defined |
|---|---|
| Time Consuming Manual Provisioning | Automated provisioning / De-provisioning |
| Discrete & Under-utilized | Pooled and Optimal usage |
| Sized upto maximum need | Elastic, Grow/Shrink when required |
| Less than 10% Utilization | Every component directly supporting business objective |
| Large CapEx / OpEx | Minimal CapEx, Reduced OpEx |
| Less Secure, Error prone | Highly Secure, resilient |
The CapEx and OpEx of maintaining large, complex heterogeneous data centers taxing many businesses driven by legacy applications and infrastructure. To maintain a competitive edge in a highly dynamic market, businesses need to re-imagine the customer experience in lower economies. The challenge is that today’s competitive environment is accelerating faster than the most convenient infrastructure can support. Businesses need an entirely new, cloud-native approach – that is primed for innovation and agility from the ground up. The emergence of cloud and virtualization, combined with dramatic cost reductions for data center hardware, has driven an evolution to a large homogeneous, Hybrid IT which is comparatively easy and cost effective to manage. Enterprises are looking for an exponential reduction in the provisioning cycle for compute / storage / network while delivering the scalability, stability, speed and efficiency required to support rapidly evolving businesses. Software-defined infrastructure (SDI) mainly drives this change. Infrastructure transformation is the first technology waypoint on the cloud-native approach. Businesses need to lay the foundation for innovation by forensically re-architecting the existing legacy environment in support of business objectives such as controlling costs, supporting growth, driving efficiency and more.
Forward-looking IT organizations are modernizing and consolidating IT infrastructure to meet the increased agility and price-performance requirements of today’s on-demand applications, cloud-native services and digital businesses. Innovative organizations are re-architecting applications for a Hybrid IT agenda, incorporating innovations such as hyper-scaling and aggregated infrastructure to reduce total cost of ownership, improve service velocity, and accelerate the pace of business.
A Blueprint for Modernizing and Consolidating Data Center and Platforms as below:
Synectiks Software Defined Reference Architecture
Activities
Aggregate
- Aggregate computing, storage, network @software layer from any public/private cloud
- Scale in/out as per need
Extend
- Develop micro service,
IOT, big data quickly - Extend full proof frameworks
DevOps
- Establish build/deployment pipeline
- Establish service orchestration
Operate
- Establish ALM
- Setup operational tools and frameworks to put your business in autopilot mode
Output
- Automated scripts to do end to end provisioning of entire platform in minutes
- Aggregated cluster capable of deploying microservice/IOT/Big Data Application
- Develop micro service,
IOT, big data quickly - Extend full proof frameworks
- Establish build/deployment pipeline
- Establish service orchestration
- Establish ALM
- Setup operational tools and frameworks to put your business in autopilot mode
Getting Started To Software Defined Transformation
Discovery & Assessment
Evaluate the needs to standardize, rationalize and consolidate existing data center assets for greater efficiency and economics, risks involved, and ROI achieved based on real time data and POC’s.
Strategic Planning & Architecture
Develop a roadmap for upgrading and consolidating infrastructure, and migrating applications and data, substantiated by futuristic architecture.
Software Defined Transformation
Modernize and Consolidate Data Center and Infrastructure Blueprint and continuously optimize it.
Operation Automation
Accelerate service agility by unifying administration and simplifying management
The very first step, discovery and assessment with automated tool will clearly give you insights on the hardware inventory, application dependency and resource consumption.
You can make informed decisions to balance workloads and optimize resources and thereby, to create a roadmap to guide the journey to Software-Defined Organization. This roadmap should map people, process, technology change requirement, consider IT policy and operating model factors; and ultimately produce clear, data-based recommendations with a proposed execution plan to enable Software-Defined Transformation to happen. Getting there will require significant upliftment of people skills, impart modern tools and technologies, transforming and migrating applications, integrating and orchestrating environments, automating and monitoring business services, enabling digital processes, and integrating data and security.
The Modernize and Consolidate Data Center and Infrastructure Platform Blueprint available in Synectiks Xformation platform helps businesses roll out new IT systems and practices to meet the increased agility and price-performance demands of the digital enterprise. By following the blueprint and Powerful automation, you can reduce workload and technology sprawl, streamline operations, and improve automation, so you can respond to the needs of the business more efficiently, quickly and cost-effectively.
Synectiks Xformation platform can help you
- Reduce CapEx and OpEx by consolidating infrastructure, pooling resources and eliminating stranded capacity
- Accelerate service agility by unifying administration and simplifying management
- Improve customer satisfaction and avoid shadow IT by introducing service orchestration tools and self-service portals
- Meet stringent IoT scalability requirements by collecting and processing data at the network edge
The Synectiks Xformation Platform delivers cloud speed, scalability and economics. Synectiks can enable your enterprise journey to Software-Defined Transformation, regardless of your starting point.
Synectiks can enable your enterprise journey to DevOps, regardless of your starting point.
Synectiks offers a variety of advisory services to assist with your modernization and consolidation Journey. Our discovery and assessment services can help you draft a Software-Defined roadmap with a clearly defined business case and mapping of people / process / technologies along with prioritized recommendations. Our recommendations reflect deep industry knowledge and contextual knowledge about your business.
You can access our open Xformation platform products and resource teams to adopt technology and cultural changes quickly from Software-Defined Transformation, People skill and process transformation and integration to cloud-native apps development. We have vast experience helping businesses plan, design, optimize and manage the transitions necessary to effect IT modernization, migration and consolidation.
We go beyond creating a strategy: Synectiks helps you plan it, do it, run it and manage it.
Top 9 reasons to select Synectiks as your Software-Defined Partner:
Experience
Large Scale modernization and consolidation experience
Artifacts
Transformation Blueprints and Automation Bots available in Xformation platform accelerate transformation effort.
Advisory
Quick Discovery / Assessment and transformation plan built in weeks, not months.
Pay As You Use
Move to consumption model economics across all IT, use our available blueprints that reduce any stranded capacity.
Economics
Upto 50% Lower TCO of IT by having aggregated infrastructure and fluid resource pools optimize use of compute, storage and fabric resources.
Operation
Upto 40% improvement in IT staff productivity by using our automations that unify administration and simplify management.
Innovation
2–3X acceleration in continuous improvement cycles
Security & Compliance
Provision and change infrastructure through well-defined blueprints and pipelines that adhere to highest level of security & compliance.
Engagement
Our every engagement is focused on empowerment, not dependency.
