The appeal of flipping the “on” switch and getting ready access to sophisticated infrastructure resources helps explain why Gartner, in its “Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems,” estimated that “the overall market for integrated systems will exceed $6 billion in 2014, with a growth rate of 50 percent over the prior year.” Prime areas where IT managers are using converged systems include private clouds, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), high-transaction database applications and hosting Web servers.

Read this report in which UBM Tech identifies the ways that converged infrastructure is being utilised to optimise the performance of key areas in organisations around the globe.

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