The cloud computing paradigm creates an illusion that resources are unlimited, a user can always launch an application and expect it to perform as needed. But it is quite common that in a trial run, or after put into production, the application does not perform at the expected level. Does this means the infrastructure need to be revamped?

HCI

On a HCI, there seems to be a way out, by increasing the number of vCPUs and memory size. This may work sometimes. But, if the bottleneck is not in CPU or memory, like most of data intensive applications, changing them will make no difference.

AWS

On a public cloud, like AWS, users can choose from a large number of instances with different combinations of vCPUs, memory size, network bandwidth and storage throughput. It is more likely a user can find an instance that delivers the performance, as long as cost is not an issue.

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This is a case in point that a good infrastructure should not constrain how user applications are run, instead, it should be able to adapt, to the best extent possible, to what user applications require. This is a major drawback of HCI with its monolithic scale-out software-defined storage. This kind of constraints is nonexistent in a legacy VMware environment where third-party SAN storage, instead of vSAN, are used.

AHCI provides a better solution that enables users to define virtualized resources to adapt to the needs of their applications while keeps an infrastructure as simple as HCI. It allows user to scale an infrastructure both horizontally and vertically.

Big Data Analytics

Big Data analytics that involves data capturing, data storage, data extraction, transformation, and visualization. AHCI is a great platform for Big Data analytics as it takes away the burden from users so that they can focus on the value generation.

Cloud Native Applications

Cloud native applications are comprised of individual microservices that can be independently scaled and continuously improved. AHCI is an ideal infrastructure for supporting this type of applications as it provides the flexibility needed to manage the applications.

Databases

Databases have many different types, developed to address different use models and requirements. AHCI is well suited for database applications as it can easily adapt to the growing number of databases that applications make use of.

DevOps

DevOps is a development process used by many organizations to deliver high-quality software products and services expediently. AHCI serves as a good infrastructure to support DevOps that requires agile responses to changing demands.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery is critical for maintaining business continuity in case of natural or man-made disasters. AHCI is a cost-effective infrastructure for building DR solutions to back up applications running on other cloud platforms, like AWS or VMware.

Edge Computing

The increasing proliferation of IoT, AI and 5G is driving the need for data storage and computation on the edge of the network to ensure low latency response. AHCI is an ideal for edge computing with its flexibility in scaling compute power, network bandwidth, and data storage independently.

Remote and Branch Offices

Fast delivery of services, minimum management, low cost, secured and reliable are the common requirements of ROBO. AHCI is a perfect solution for this type of applications with its simplicity and small startup cost.

Mission Critical Applications

Mission critical applications require 7x24 uninterrupted operations. AHCI is a distributed system with built-in high availability that supports automatic migration or failover of mission critical applications. 

Security and Surveillance

With AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, security and surveillance are going far beyond record-and-replay into semantic and behavioral insights. AHCI is a great platform for building this new type of new systems as it can be customized to support a sophisticated set of software applications involved.

Virtual Desktops

A good virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) should be scalable and provide consistent user experience. AHCI is a cost-efficient platform for building VDI solutions, integrated with technology partner Teradici’s PCoIP Clients, users can access their desktop on any devices.

Workload Migration

Applications that have special resource (large number of vCPUs or amount of memory, high-speed network or storage) requirements are very expensive to run on public clouds, like AWS. AHCI is a much better alternative that provides substantial cost saving.

Education

AHCI is a simple and economic infrastructure for school administration, in-person, remote or hybrid learning systems with low maintenance that can mitigate the common budgetary and staffing constraints.

Energy

AHCI is a capable and scalable platform for data intensive energy, such as oil and gas, companies that requires massive capacity and high performance to support exploration and production. 

Financial Services

AHCI is a flexible platform that can be easily scaled and upgraded to meet the needs of financial services that always demand speeds and feeds, and rapid adoption of new technologies in hardware.

Government

AHCI is a cost-efficient platform for state and local governments that want to expand the scope of IT expertise, launch and scale their smart cities and smart government initiative or projects.

Healthcare

AHCI is an extensible platform for healthcare organizations that are going through major shifts driven by new technologies based in IoT, AI, Big Data and 5G to re-invent and improve the quality of care. 

Manufacturing

AHCI is a platform that manufacturers can use as an infrastructure backbone for transforming and scaling their manufacturing processes to become Industry 4.0

smart factories

Retails

AHCI is a platform that retailers can use to deploy new AI technologies to augment their customer relationship from simple transactions to personalized experience and contextualized services.

Transportation

AHCI is a platform that transportation, passenger or freight, operators can use to deploy new digital technologies to automate and optimize their complex logistics and operations.