Architecting the Industrial Internet

Converged infrastructure and engineered systems

Converged infrastructure brings the operating system, server, storage, and network together in a single system. Converged infrastructure can provide a platform to get started in an IIoT project, but you still need to integrate applications and databases into the infrastructure.

Engineered systems offer another opportunity to offload routine and generic system-management tasks. Engineered systems include hardware and software, and provide integrated, tested, and optimized platforms and systems. Engineered systems are available for enterprise and mid-range organizations and include database machines, cloud machines, middleware machines, intelligent storage systems, and big data appliance. Engineered ...