Do a Google News search on "Converged Infrastructure." What do you see? Exactly - all the mega technology vendors, analyst firms, data center thought leaders and fledgeling start ups talking up the growing market opportunity.

Given the fact that eGroup has been delivering these pre-validated hardware and software systems to customers for several years now while helping them reduce data center complexity (i.e. VSPEX reference architecture), we decided to join the growing chorus of advice and opinion.

Today, we launched, in tandem with Spiceworks and EMC, results of a survey which reveals adoption rates, benefits and concerns of converged infrastructure systems within small-to-medium sized enterprise information technology (IT) departments.

The findings were used to develop the paper below, “Converged Infrastructure: Making the Move From Buzzword to Big Hit in SMB.” Give it a read as the results are quite interesting - despite the obvious benefits around infrastructure optimization and fast deployment cycles, SMB IT professionals remain somewhat slow to adopt converged infrastructure systems.

Why is it that IT buyers are clear on that benefits of integrated stacks versus individual components, but yet more than 50 percent of those surveyed have no plans to adopt?

Download and read the brief paper for the answers.