As we all know, nothing is 100% secure — perhaps none more so than when legacy server infrastructure is involved.

$4m per data breachAccording to figures from IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach report1, the average financial cost of a security breach in 2020 was $3.86 million. The cost to reputations (both corporate and personal) can be long-lasting and even more brutal. It’s clear to see why regulations such as the EU’s GDPR come with hefty penalties for data breaches.

As a CIO or senior IT worker, you’re increasingly being asked to do more with less. Budgets are squeezed while expectations rise, yet new security threats still need focused time and resources. It’s a tricky position to be in - you don’t have to be a magician to work in IT, but it helps.

So how can you square the circle of adding increasingly strong security measures to reduce the risk of data breaches while simultaneously keeping costs down and managing resources wisely?

Say hi to HCIHyperconverged Infrastructure, or HCI, provides a large part of the answer.

HCI blends the elements of a traditional data center (compute, storage, and networking) into a single system. Instead of a hardware-defined infrastructure, HCI creates a virtualized, software-defined environment that is often simpler to maintain and easier to scale up and out. This helps to reduce operational costs and improve performance.

Digital transformation is driving enterprise data centers towards hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and away from traditional RAID and compute-storage-network infrastructures. It’s not difficult to see why: HCI makes sense when agility, total cost of ownership and security are your priorities.

But HCI isn’t secure by default

To reduce the risk of security breaches, you need to choose secure components in your HCI solution. AMD EPYCä processors are designed with a sophisticated suite of security features that help minimize security risks.

How AMD EPYCä CPUs bring security capabilities to your HCI solution

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