Just like the businesses they assistance just, modern technologies tend to be more before distributed than ever before. Longer confined to an individual no, centralized data center, programs and infrastructure come in branch offices, shops, and remote work websites. They’re spread across general public and private cloud conditions. And they’re fueling countless IoT and advantage capabilities.

What’s good for company can be problematic for IT, needless to say. Managing, supporting, and scaling these distributed techniques and workloads could be challenging extremely. Particularly when they’re in far-flung places with restricted or no technical abilities onsite.

For these reasons and more, “anywhere operations” is among Gartner’s top strategic technology trends for 2021. It represents “an IT working model made to support clients, enable employees, and manage the deployment of business solutions across distributed infrastructures everywhere. By the ultimate end of 2023, 40% of organizations could have applied anywhere functions to provide optimized and blended digital and physical consumer and employee encounters.”¹

Fortunately, you can find solutions that help simplify IT management and delivery at the edge.

Australia-based Resolute Mining, for instance, is using a mix of Cisco HyperFlex Edge and Cisco Intersight to aid its remote mining procedures inside Mali. With hyperconverged infrastructure and cloud-based management, issues that used to need onsite intervention and frequently resulted in times of downtime are actually easily resolved in mins from Perth.

“Cisco HyperFlex is hands-off and totally self-sufficient completely,” said Simon Duncalf, This Supervisor at Resolute Mining. “It logs its tickets, links us with tech assistance, and heals itself until a long lasting fix could be implemented.”

They are all critical features delivered with Cisco HyperFlex Advantage and Cisco Intersight that may truly help customers because they strive towards “anywhere functions” and assist in the continued quest for operational efficiency.

For more information about Resolute Mining’s advantage infrastructure, browse the full case study.

Additional resources

[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/3586571/gartner-top-strategic-technology-trends-for-2021.html

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