It has been common for traditional IT infrastructure purchases to be “best of breed” products for each technology. This choice leads to multivendor environments that are faced with interoperability issues, disparate management interfaces, and performance and support challenges. This complexity increases management overhead and time and inevitably leads to higher cost. Moving towards a limited number of vendors, or even a single vendor when applicable, that can provide a hybrid cloud operating model which provides a solution to these problems. Managing all resources from a unified, hyperconverged platform brings the following advantages:

• Reduced complexity with a complete validated platform
• Integrated life cycle management for storage, compute, and (potentially) networking
• High degree of automation to reduce human error and maximize application uptime
• Modern management tools that seamlessly integrate with the public cloud
• Management and maintenance capabilities in the public cloud to manage on-premises infrastructure at scale