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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 1 Hypervisors

Posted on March 21, 2019 by George Crump

It is tempting for IT professionals to take a macro-view of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and let the vendor take care of all the details. The problem is the details matter, especially in HCI. The key HCI components for IT to…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VMware
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Why Controllerless Software-defined Networking for the Distributed Cloud?

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises will continue to shift away from centralized data centers, in lieu of smaller edge locations that provide the latency, bandwidth, autonomy and privacy required by future forward workloads such as virtual reality (VR) and Internet of Things (IoT) driven…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyper-converged, IoT, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, SLA, Software Defined, Virtual reality
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Lightboard Video: Why The Edge is Demanding Next Generation Network Fabrics

Posted on March 12, 2019 by George Crump

Edge Computing, often referred to as Distributed Cloud, is becoming a requirement for a set of new application use cases revolving around IoT, AI/ML and other new technologies requiring ultra low latency, data thinning to reduce bandwidth costs, autonomy, and…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, IoT, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined
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Why Hyperconverged Infrastructure 2.0 for the Hybrid Cloud?

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Most enterprises have experienced early value and success with deploying hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for virtualized workloads. In fact, it is the ability to streamline the path to the on-premises private cloud through abstracting the storage controller into the hypervisor and…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization
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Why SDN and Intent-based Networking for Edge Computing?

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

For many enterprises, the traditional, centralized data center is steadily becoming a part of the past. Compute power and storage capacity are increasingly distributed to the network edge, to facilitate faster, more secure, and more cost-effective analysis of the growing…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, IoT, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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How to Create a Storage Consolidation Solution That Lasts

Posted on February 28, 2019 by George Crump

Consolidating storage into a single, or even a few storage systems is a big project. Once the project is complete, IT’s job is not over. The next job for IT is to make sure storage remains consolidated. Temptations to allow…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Hypervisor, NVMe, SAS, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, StorONE, Virtualization
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What Can Storage Learn From Server Consolidation?

Posted on February 13, 2019 by George Crump

Storage consolidation projects are permanently on the IT project whiteboard. The process typically starts after IT realizes that their data center is overrun by multiple storage systems from multiple vendors. Storage Switzerland finds that most data centers have 5-6 different…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, ML, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization, VMware
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Why is Traditional Storage Consolidation Failing

Posted on February 11, 2019 by George Crump

The most common method for consolidating storage is for the organization to purchase a single storage system, hardware, and software, and move all workloads to the new system. The organization is in effect creating a storage mainframe. The challenges with…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, ML, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization, VMware
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Using Software-defined Networking to Scale the IT Team

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

IT infrastructure must become easier to manage, to free up the time that IT managers are spending on cumbersome day-to-day management tasks that add little strategic value. To meet this need, automation and software-driven abstraction are becoming baked into modern…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Avoiding Vendor Lock-in to Maximize the Value of SDN

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Proprietary network architectures and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) brought to the table functionality that was foundational in enabling the development of the Internet. However, for a number of reasons, a more open and standards-driven approach to networking is necessary…