<a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-8188 alignleft" alt="CRN" src="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>Surely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week's VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)

eGroup's Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN's feature, "<a href="http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>"

Below is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform," Flowers said.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. "Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform," he said. "Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>
Click "<a href="http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.