Integrated infrastructure is a validated configuration that combines hardware and software components to form a single “out-of-the-box” solution. Unification and joining of information flows can significantly simplify business processes. Integrated infrastructure will lead to the growth of interaction efficiency both inside the organization and outside the organization such as with your clients and partners.

• Traditional model: Under the traditional model, most organizations will have to spend time on aspects such as sizing each infrastructure component, ordering and installing each of those components and configuring and optimizing each component and so on.
• Evolving model: In the evolving model, integrated infrastructure eliminates more than half of the time spent on various steps. Integration simplifies every aspect of the IT infrastructure lifecycle.

Challenges to integration tend to persist. Whether in the cloud or on-premises, infrastructure must continue to evolve so that business strategies and innovations can efficiently respond to the changing expectations of the customers. At times, some challenges are future-facing and dramatic whereas at other times they may seem downright mundane but critical to the organizations’ ability to thrive. Basic issues such as how well your computing, networking, and storage resources work to share, process and store data can cause inestimable damage to an enterprise.

Businesses need secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure integration to support their objectives and growth. The right technological expertise can propel your business forward, delivering agility, efficiency, and security. However, ever-changing technology developments and innovations require experienced professionals with expert knowledge, right toolsets and proven methodologies to transform, maintain and enhance the infrastructure for greater efficiency.

It consists of a set of middleware technologies that provides interoperable services essential to establish communication between applications. The services are separated into horizontal and vertical layers.

• Horizontal: Provide basic infrastructure services useful for most current and new generation applications.
• Vertical: Provides functionalities associated with specific tasks within the infrastructure that spans through various horizontal layers.

It is unusual to find a single technology to build a comprehensive enterprise-wide infrastructure integration. Also choosing and mixing different technologies requires focusing on their interoperability.