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Reading Time: < 1 minuteImplementing a converged infrastructure for targeted workloads is just like wheeling in a Trojan horse into your IT environment. It gives you a radical new approach to infiltrate your IT department and eventually your entire organization.’ That’s because embedded in every converged infrastructure is a shared-resource mentality that transcends the traditional server, storage, networking, management and application silos. A targeted converged infrastructure also helps you focus on automation and orchestration efforts that prove their value—with measurable savings in time and money as well as through their ability to help you respond dynamically to changing business requirements. But perhaps the most important outcome of a targeted converged infrastructure is that it provides the means to move beyond the conventional siloed data center environment in incremental steps. This approach extends your IT roadmap into a future where business and technology actually work as one. Converged infrastructures are clearly gaining significant traction within enterprise environments. Gartner predicts that by the end of this year, one third of all servers will ship as managed resources in a converged infrastructure. And without the management and productivity advantages of a converged infrastructure, managing and operating your cloud computing environment will prove costly, frustrating and ineffective. To find out more about how a converged infrastructure platform can deliver lower management costs and speed the implementation and deployment of new services, check out...