How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence
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Traditional three-tier (compute, network, storage) architectures have served their purpose. In today’s modern data centers, is a storage area network (SAN) the best fit to support your virtualized workloads and cloud aspirations? With a traditional SAN, every few years you’re faced with the need to refresh not only your storage infrastructure, but other technologies as well. It’s a never-ending cycle of research, evaluation, vendor management, testing, deployment and migration. Maybe now is a good time to get off the merry-go-round.
In this webinar, Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and SimpliVity’s Adam Sekora compare and contrast the suitability of SANs vs. hyperconverged architectures; examine the benefits of consolidating and reducing the number of discrete IT devices in lieu of hyperconverged infrastructure; and discuss the merits of simplified IT and its impact on technology refresh initiatives. Join us to learn:
- How the post-virtualization data center is impacting infrastructure and operations
- How hyperconvergence simplifies IT and establishes a path to cloud computing
- How a move away from a traditional three-tier architecture and toward hyperconverged infrastructure alleviates the pain points of never-ending cycles of technology refresh
Webinar registrants will receive a copy of Storage Switzerland’s latest educational white paper, “The Post-Virtualization Refresh – Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?”. The paper describes how data centers are reinventing themselves through virtualization. It examines the architectures best suited to support a cloud-like design, and helps IT professionals decide if a hyperconverged architecture is best to support the next-generation data center.
As is always the case with a Storage Switzerland webinar, we will leave plenty of time for questions. Ask our analyst or guest for suggestions regarding your post-virtualization storage challenges.
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George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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