A Stereograph view of Convergent Solution Modelling

Most of the time, I spend my free hours pondering on several topics around technology. Researching and keeping up to date with all news on technology.


Currently, I'm involved with developing operational and functional frameworks for one of the biggest Pharmaceutical company in the world, specifically, around the areas of developing or improving their infrastructure operations processes and policies.



Obviously, the core of the work also involves looking forward at emerging technology trends, specifically, those that can improve IT services and operations delivery.




Most of the IT Management folks in the industry, I bet, would have this same pastime.


Googling this subject item online, you get a lot of so-called expert advise on the topic. Lately though, I've been finding myself disgusted with how most technology writers are blurbbing about one topic - specifically, on Convergent Solutions Modelling.

A lot of them are either preaching their gospels or hurling shit-loads of criticisms at each other's point of view, but the never really touched on the "more important aspects"

Although I vowed that I'm not going to fall into their ranks, lately I felt compelled to talk about this for the simple reason that I'm getting pissed with all the chatter and noise.

What's the Deal?

So what is the real score when it comes to convergent solutions? To give some of the other readers of this post a chance to know what the hell am I talking about, let us define what convergent solution modeling is for our discussion.

Simply put, convergent solution modeling is a framework advocating simplifying or deploying technology resource pools for the purposes of reducing cost and improving efficiencies without compromising the quality of the delivery of information technology services within the organization. 

This means that, you're looking at ways to improve service delivery while at the same time driving the cost envelope down for the entire organization.

So, going back to the subject - How does subscribing to a particular Convergent Solution Model help an IT Organization? Well, for starters, a sound model would enable your organization to exploits the true benefits of an actively managed infrastructure to its full potential. Convergent systems also means consolidated managements of these systems, which translates to less constraint to your most valuable assets - human resources. Convergent technology also drives down cost footprint, enabling you to free your budget envelopes ensuring that you can invest them to other IT related activities that can help drive further improvements within your organization.


The benefits of convergent solutions far outweighs any other solutions framework in existence.

If you are really committed to ensure that your IT Organization reap the benefits of Convergent Solution Modelling, you can proceed reading on, otherwise, try this site to relax a bit =)

To kick you off on the right track - I've put together a list of categories to consider before you decide to take the path of Convergent Solutions...

Areas for consideration on adoption of convergent technology models

Obviously we all want to do a good job to ensure that we deploy the most relevant convergent model for ourselves. So, I've put together a few qualifiers from my experience to tell you exactly what the real score on this is for you:

Administration and Management

Take an inventory of your entire infrastructure and systems lot, taking special considerations with all the critical systems you support on your organization and try to do a little analysis on what is that "magic" ratio between your entire silo versus your staff. Ideally, from my personal experience, the ratio should be around 6:1 for critical systems or 10:1 for operational silos.

Do the math, and ensure that if you go with a convergent model of your design, that your workforce will be enough to support them.

Furthermore, aside from counting heads, you need to ensure that your staff is competent enough to deploy and later on support the technology on your model. This means that you need to talk to them and assess their skills in terms of convergent solutions like Virtualization, and other convergent technology systems. This also means that if majority of your folks doesn't know shit about this, that you would need to make arrangement for either hiring qualified personnel to help you deploy the solution or consider recommending them for training.

This alone would be more than enough work for you for the next 2-3 months, but you need to get the numbers right at this time, or you'll be facing a big dilemma later on.

Budget Management

Obviously, your plan will never materialize if you don't have enough dough for them. I suggest you do your homework or recommend a budget plan for this for next year if it has not been accounted for within this year.

Most convergent technology solutions in the market right now are 30-35 percent cheaper than they are 2 years ago, so re-run those number recommendations again if you have not done so at this point.

Areas to consider on this category would be: IPAM, Cost of Management – procurement, power, real estate, fees, training, etc.

Give special attention to what you're financial objectives are in the first place – which is cost reduction.

Implementation Management

Since we're already talking about scrapping a majority of your infrastructure at this point – you'd also want to consider what is the impact of migrating or consolidating existing infrastructure services and systems you currently have on inventory.

Scalability and Growth


Convergent Systems route back to the concepts of consolidating assets, which mostly means exploiting Virtualization solutions amongst other solutions offering. Currenly, the traditional structure of data center infrastructures of static resource silos have been recognized to be both inefficient and costly.


Advancement in the fields of virtualization technology, enabled most IT Organizations to ensure that managing resources and at the same time bringing down cost, is now an achievable reality.


Along with these convergent systems, the question around horizontal (and even vertical) scalability is still constantly being addressed. Static resource pools requires independent teams and resources just to manage them. These translates to escalating cost and constraining resources not to mention pushing the budget envelop ever higher for upgrades or similar activities.Obviously, when we talk about scalability, the static solutions model doesn't offer any consolation at this point.


We all know the value of consolidated, actively managed systems exploiting the full potential of any given resource silo. Virtualization allows static pools to be shared and actively managed ensuring that assets is exploited to its full potential. Managing convergent solutions would also require less man-hours freeing up your human resources for other productive activities.


Any current concerns around whether convergent technology is matured enough to handle mission critical systems is no longer an issue. Everyday, convergent technology brings IT Organizations closer to the realization of effectively supporting and managing their pools.



Whatever your exit goals are for employing convergent solutions, you always have to keep a your focus on a end result which is what we defined convergent solution modeling is – which is cost reduction on all aspects of IT Operations and Delivery.



Sound IT Operations and Project Management practices should get you through implementing this model – if you don't have a qualified professional in your staff to do this right now, consider hiring me as a consultant in your firm.

I have industry expertise in the field of technology operations management, as well as system and network systems to implement convergent technology solutions. I have been in the IT industry for over 13 years now, mostly involved as subject matter expert in the said fields.

I've been involved with several industry leaders in the market (i.e. Real Estate, Development, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, and Technology Systems) and have made my mark in several technology development and management paths within these organizations.

I'm currently working as a portfolio and technology project manager with one of the biggest global computer systems company right now implementing this delivery model.


You can check my professional profile here or you can leave me a comment and I'll get back to you.