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It started out as a vendor reference to an integrated blade solution but today converged infrastructure is accepted as an IT industry term across all major manufacturers.  It refers to the integration of compute, network, and storage typically integrated within a blade chassis.  These IT elements are tightly integrated physically and include management software that ties the elements together as a logical IT resource pool from which services are provisioned.  In most cases CI solutions have well integrated software options for automation and orchestration. Converged infrastructure solutions are designed to make IT agile.  They are the hardware ying to the hypervisor yang.

Virtualization and CI along with automation and orchestration software allow for fast and simple deployment of IT services.  What would take weeks or more in a non-converged IT environment now takes just hours.  The many traditional silos of request, approval, sourcing, and provisioning are now gone and this integrated, streamlined, and simple process to create IT services frees up more IT budget for innovation investments.