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Five VM-Level Infrastructure Adaptations
It used to be that IT struggled to intimately understand every app in order to provide the right supporting infrastructure. Today, server virtualization makes the job much easier, because IT can now just cater to VMs. By working and communicating at the VM level, both app owners and infrastructure admins stay focused, using a common API to help ensure apps are hosted effectively and IT runs efficiently.
- Premiered: 07/21/14
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: Virtualization Review
‘Software-defined’ to define data center of the future
Is there a real answer for how “software” can define “data center” underneath the software-defined hype?
- Premiered: 07/16/14
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: Modern Infrastructure Magazine
Ready or not, converged infrastructure systems are here
Converged infrastructures assemble components from multiple IT domains into one integrated system by combining virtualization, storage, networking and compute. A management framework is also included that allows orchestration of the entire infrastructure so that each constituent technology doesn’t have to be managed separately. But from that set of basic parameters, the individual flavors vary significantly, and those different flavors are well worth a closer look.
- Premiered: 07/08/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Virtual Storage
Why Facebook and the NSA love graph databases
Is there a benefit to understanding how your users, suppliers or employees relate to and influence one another? It’s hard to imagine that there is a business that couldn’t benefit from more detailed insight and analysis, let alone prediction, of its significant relationships.
- Premiered: 06/17/14
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: Tech Target: Search Data Center
In the Cloud Era, The Era of Convergence Is Upon Us
The era of IT infrastructure convergence is upon us. Every major vendor has some type of offering under this category. Startups and smaller players are also “talking” convergence. But what exactly is convergence and why are all the vendors so interested in getting included in this category? We will explain below the history of convergence, what it is, what it is not, what benefits accrue from such systems, who the players are, and who is leading the pack in true convergence.
- Premiered: 06/10/14
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: Virtualization Review
Internet of Things data will boost storage
IT departments can benefit from storage vendors eavesdropping on their arrays to help them curb the amount of Internet of Things data inundating their storage shops.
- Premiered: 06/09/14
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: Tech Target: Search Storage