Organizations need infrastructure platforms that not only optimize cost but also provide agility to respond to changing organization requirements, helping to keep up with known and emerging competitors, and customer demands. And, to move to multi-premises, cloud infrastructure for optimized operations and modernized applications, data center managers need infrastructure solutions that are highly available and that provide secure environments for multi-cloud deployments.

Dramatic benefits, both technical and financial, are the driving factors around the converged infrastructure adoption boom. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, the worldwide converged systems market increased revenue 4.6% percent year over year to $2.6 billion during the first quarter of 2017 (Q1’17). Solutions such as FlashStack have revolutionized the deployment of converged infrastructure by creating powerful efficiencies for the data center.  Cisco and Pure Storage deliver FlashStack, a modern converged infrastructure (CI) solution that is smarter, simpler, smaller – and more efficient than ever before.