Modern infrastructure emerged from the needs created by digital transformation. Businesses must adapt legacy infrastructure to meet new demands in an increasingly reactive, competitive, and globalised market.
Agile, Scalable, and Secure Infrastructure as a Driver of Innovation
By building agile, scalable, and secure infrastructure, organisations leverage IT to innovate, optimise operations, and respond quickly to changes in their environment.
Contrary to the traditional view of IT infrastructure and operations as a necessary evil, it is now an investment centre where business and technology integrate to become one.
Rapid Diversification of Technologies
This transformation leads to the rapid diversification of technologies assembled together, providing innovative solutions to new problems without fully replacing traditional, sometimes legacy, systems.
The Rise of Cloud Services and Its Impact
With the rapid growth of cloud services, some complex and critical infrastructure has moved from on-premises to cloud-hosted services, where many features are accessible only via APIs.
However, virtualisation remains the cheapest and fastest computing solution for workloads that need to be hosted close to their users.
The Need for Coherence in a Fragmented Landscape of Solutions
The diverse range of solutions and interfaces shifts the critical focus of operations from individual solution expertise to the coherence of the infrastructure as a whole.
In a more complex and diverse environment, skilled solution experts are more essential than ever. Organisations must invest in integrating their technologies to serve the business and automate delivery and management to avoid becoming a bottleneck.
The Challenge of Integrating a Diversity of Technologies
The increase in technology diversity within businesses means that fewer out-of-the-box solutions will fully align with business needs. Greater care and effort are required to integrate these technologies into a coherent whole, avoiding tight coupling that could hinder agility.
SynEdgy: Experts in Automation Architecture
With over 10 years of experience in cutting-edge organisations, SynEdgy are experts in automation architecture, integrating diverse technologies into a cohesive structure.
Our approach is to build infrastructure as software that promotes agility and modularity without losing sight of the business it serves. We prioritise Infrastructure as Code (IaC), where configuration items are declared in a human-readable format, with built-in collaboration and audit capabilities via Git.
Our Tools for High-Performance Infrastructure
We build dashboards for discoverability, observability, and integrated remediation.
Azure Cloud & M365
A central part of the modern infrastructure landscape, Microsoft Azure cloud and the M365 suite are a hive of services and tools designed for flexible infrastructure and business productivity.
PowerShell and its ecosystem is a great tool to bridge the automation from the cloud to on-premises, and from legacy to new systems.
Virtualisation
While the virtualisation industry is reshaping around the current acquisitions and sell off, a number of new players are gaining traction.
This will most likely result in a greater diversification of systems and experimentations to mitigate lock-in or deprecation, and in turn a new domain to integrate to the existing infrastructures.
Machine Configuration
Some projects will still require the sheer power and versatility of bare metal server farms for a long time. Other systems can be virtually re-platformed onto any cloud services and benefit from the flexibility and scale without the physical management burden.
The only constant is change, and configuring machine whether or virtual can be challenging, but doing it at scale and collaboratively over a long time is an expertise!
Windows, Linux and containers
These days the OS matter less, and is mostly seen and managed as a runtime for the code that runs on it.
Sometimes the thinner the OS layer is the better, but each offers their benefits.
