Business requirements

Each company with infrastructure located in remote and distributed sites desires, of course, to resolve the previous limitation and find a reasonable solution.

So, the basic and mandatory requirements could be:

• Central management: To minimize the lack of local IT staff and expertise, the solution should be easy to deploy and, more importantly, easy to manage and monitor on a large scale (depending on the number of remote offices)
• Availability and compliance: Deliver improved business continuity and enable proactive regulatory compliance at remote sites and branch offices
• Data protection: Using an affordable backup and recovery solution

But also, it would like to innovate and try to deliver:

• Standardization: Define and enforce configuration standards consistently across your remote sites and branch offices to minimize configuration drift
• Repeatability: Standardizing each office and having a baseline design and configuration for the infrastructure, in order to adopt a repeatable building block approach.
• More agility: To rapidly provision and manage the entire IT infrastructure
• Infrastructures more service oriented: The main focus should be the service and the business
• Scalable solution: It can work for a few workloads (in a remote office), but also with more (if needed)