Some manufacturers have developed converged offerings that make the deployment of server compute, networking and storage resources more streamlined by pre-integrating each component into a rack enclosure. While this reduces deployment time, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ongoing operational…
Converged infrastructures combine the four components of a compute environment – a server, storage, networking and a virtualization platform – in a single system. The concept is to simplify the implementation of a compute environment and maintain that simplicity as…
Data centers of all sizes are investigating Web-Scale architectures to see if they will meet their needs. In our recent webinar, “Web-scale vs. Enterprise IT“, we asked enterprise IT planners “What Appeals Most About a Web-Scale Architecture?”. The top vote…
Converged infrastructures are capturing the attention of organizations who are hoping to drive down IT costs while increasing data center agility. As we will discuss in our on demand webinar, “Is Convergence Right for You? – 4 Questions to Ask”,…
What is the next wave of virtualization? Now that many businesses have consolidated their server infrastructure, a potential next logical course is to find ways to simplify the management of other resources in the data center like storage and networking…
The title of this entry, “Which All-flash Architecture Do You Prefer?”, was actually a question asked on the LinkedIn group, “Storage: SAN, NAS“, a couple of days ago. It was in response to a recent post by Calvin Zito @HPStorageGuy…
One of the meetings at the Next-Gen Storage Summit (NGSS) was by the Object Storage Alliance, a group of many of the companies in this technology space offering storage systems and related products. There was a lively discussion about what…
The below is an excerpt from our exclusive report, “Virtualization Made Simple with Hyperconverged Infrastructure“. This paper is sent immediately to anyone that registers for our live or on-demand webinar that will cover how organizations with limited IT personnel can…
Data centers of all sizes are looking for ways to increase the return on investment on their virtualized (desktop and server) infrastructures. Converged infrastructures propose to increase ROI by reducing the number of layers, essentially combining compute, storage and networking…
The utilization efficiency, flexibility and scalability of Web-scale architectures appeal to the more traditional data center, but Enterprise IT needs the ability to run existing, Windows back-office applications and can’t sacrifice performance and reliability. Web-scale architectures are more than just…
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