Driving down the cost of IT

Businesses using a converged infrastructure can experience savings

Key drivers of converged infrastructure

Uptake is growing in 2013

of UK organisations are predicted to have adopted a cloud approach to infrastructure by 2015.

Cloud file-sharing services will see strong enterprise adoption in Europe in 2013.

Moving to a converged infrastructure can save organisations

significant amounts of money while offering plenty of other operational benefits

there will be

devices connected anywhere, anytime

By 2020

50 billion

A converged infrastructure can help you roll out big projects easily, in days rather than weeks or months.

Challenges facing IT depts.

Server sprawl out of control

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50%40%drop in storage costs

reductionin power consumption

Hosted private cloud services will grow

75%

$2bnThe IDC expects the total addressable market for converged infrastructure solutions to grow to more than $2bn by 2014

growth

Cloud professional

services will grow30% to $3.8bn

Cloud servicesin 2013

CIOs are accelerating their mobile software as a service strategy

31 inorganisations have already or will soon deploy

a large cloud-based app store

there will be a

in Global 1000 companies running two or more cloud services for internal and external users.

By 2014

500% increase

2014

10 million mobile cloud users

130 million mobile cloud users

2017

Converged infrastructure is the future.Find out why.

Creating your converged infrastructure future

We can help you define and deploy a converged infrastructure that is right for your business, helping you make things simpler by consolidating networks, servers, storage and visualisation onto a single, easy to use secure platform - cutting your IT costs in the process.

BT iNet can take you on the journey to the cloud with our dedicated team of experts.

We’ve even added 50 membersto our team to make the journey smoother.

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