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Engineered Systems Decline, Converged Systems Boom

September 25, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …

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There Is More Than One Route To SDN Switching

June 10, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Software defined networking means different things to a lot of people, and the strictest meaning and most open (in terms of open source) variant of SDN will not necessarily – or easily – vanquish quasi-proprietary variants of SDN from the datacenter. …

Compute

Traders Bank On Server Switch Hybrids For Performance Boost

April 6, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Drawing the lines where the server ends and the network begins is getting more and more difficult. …

Compute

Engineered Systems Stall, Modular Systems Still Growing

March 31, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Tailoring systems for specific jobs is one of the foundational themes of The Next Platform, so we like to keep an eye on the segments of the systems market that have a particular platform bend to them. …

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New Protocol Targets Cloud Scalability

February 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

It is no accident that virtualizing the network has taken longer than virtualizing servers or storage, and it is similarly not a coincidence that the hyperscale datacenter operators and a small number of very large businesses have decided to build their own switches and routers operating systems for these devices. …

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