HCI doesn’t displace the cloud in the data center, it complements it by providing a secure, scalable, on-premise platform.
The Hot New Thing in Next-Gen Data Centers Is Not the Cloud, It’s This.
HCI doesn’t displace the cloud in the data center, it complements it by providing a secure, scalable, on-premise platform.
So far in our blog series, we’ve talked about building out our Cloud infrastructure using a best-of-breed approach and a single-vendor reference architecture. But what if you wanted a manufacturer to design, build, integrate, and support a reference architecture? Then you’d be talking about a converged infrastructure solution.
For IT departments, the age of the “Instant Yes” may soon be upon us. In the near future, IT departments will be able to accommodate any request for IT resources with a quick and complete affirmative using cloud technology.
About once a generation, the IT landscape undergoes a significant shift. In the 1950s, the commercialization of mainframe computers resulted in the 1st Platform: centralized, time-shared computers accessed by text-based monitors. In the 1980s and 1990s, open systems ushered in the 2nd Platform, which featured a client/server architecture that leveraged a new kind of global network called the Internet.
Today SDN (Software Defined Networking) is the hot topic among IT professionals. If you attend any type of IT conference or exhibition there will be sessions and conversations centered on SDN.