Business Continuity and Hyperconvergence for a resilient IT infrastructure

26 Oct 2024 | Hyperconvergence

Hyperconvergence, the core of modern IT architecture, supports Business Continuity by providing resilient, scalable, and ready-to-use infrastructures to ensure uninterrupted operations and minimize downtime.

 

Business Continuity and hyperconvergence are closely linked within the context of modern IT infrastructures, as hyperconvergence represents an essential and highly effective architecture for ensuring operational continuity. With the rise in digitalization and reliance on technology, companies need an infrastructure that can ensure continuous operations even in the event of unexpected failures or disasters.

Hyperconvergence integrates computing, networking, storage, and virtualization resources into a single virtualized platform, reducing the complexities and costs of traditional infrastructure while offering greater flexibility and speed in resource management. This architecture not only allows companies to operate more agilely but also maintains high service availability thanks to its redundant nature and ability to support advanced functions such as automatic failover, synchronous replication, and distributed backup.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity is a strategic approach to ensure that a company’s essential processes and services remain operational even during an interruption or disaster. The primary objectives of Business Continuity are:
  • Minimizing downtime.
  • Ensuring that critical data is recoverable.
  • Maintaining access to business applications and systems

Hyperconvergence

Hyperconvergence is an IT infrastructure that combines computing, storage, and networking into a single centrally managed system. Thanks to virtualization, these systems allow for simplified management and expansion. OpenStor 2910, for example, represents a type of hyperconverged system that enables companies to create ready-to-use infrastructures.

All-in-One Hyperconvergence

The OpenStor All-in-One Hyperconvergence System is a hyperconvergence solution that integrates all the hardware and software components of a data center into a single system. This includes the server side, storage for data archiving, switches intended for networking and virtualization.

The hyperconverged system consists of a single chassis, consisting of 4 rack units, which contains all the components necessary for the complete operation of the IT infrastructure. This apparatus is preconfigured and ready to use, making it an excellent solution to easily implement and manage.

OpenStor hyperconverged systems are fully scalable. In fact, they can be easily expanded to meet any growing needs of companies, easily managing workloads.

In addition, they can help reduce costs significantly by reducing the need to purchase and manage separate hardware and software-a significant benefit in terms of the budget allocated to IT resources.

 

Come l’iperconvergenza supporta la Business Continuity

High Availability (HA): with a high-availability configuration, it replicates data in real-time across multiple nodes, enabling automatic failover.

Fast Backup and Recovery: hyperconvergence simplifies backup and data recovery operations, reducing recovery times.

Scalability and Flexibility: hyperconverged infrastructures allow for the quick addition of resources to meet new demands or recover from a failure.

Centralized Management: centralized and simplified management allows monitoring, management, and troubleshooting from a single platform.