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For Many, Hyperconverged Is The Next Platform

January 29, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There is a kind of dichotomy in the datacenter. The upstart hyperconverged storage makers will tell you that the server-storage half-bloods that they have created are inspired by the storage at Google or Facebook or Amazon Web Services, but this is not, strictly speaking, true.  …

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Disaggregated Or Hyperconverged, What Storage Will Win The Enterprise?

December 4, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

It has been a long time coming, but hyperconverged storage pioneer Nutanix is finally letting go of hardware, shifting from being an a server-storage hybrid appliance maker to a company that sells software that provides hyperconverged functionality on whatever hardware large enterprises typically buy. …

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Getting Hyper And Converged About Storage

December 1, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

Hyperconverged infrastructure is a relatively small but fast-growing part of the datacenter market, driving in large part by enterprises looking to simplify and streamline their environments as they tackle increasingly complex workloads. …

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Getting Hyper About Converged Storage, And Then Some

November 9, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There is no question that information technology is always too complex, and that people have been complaining about this for over five decades now. …

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Growing Hyperconverged Platforms Takes Patience, Time, And Money

August 22, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

In this day and age when the X86 server has pretty much taken over compute in the datacenter, enterprise customers still have their preferences and prejudices when it comes to the make and model of X86 machine that they deploy to run their applications. …

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The Hype About Converged Systems

June 27, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Converged systems are a hot commodity in the IT sector these days. …

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Cisco And Springpath Take On Hyperconvergence Incumbents

March 1, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The convergence of servers and networks forced the hand of networking giant Cisco Systems back in the late 2000s, compelling it to create the Unified Computing System blade servers and their integrated networking and launch them nearly seven years ago now, upsetting the balance of power in the datacenter. …

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EMC, VMware Push VSAN Hyperconvergence To The Limits

February 16, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are a lot of ways to build or buy hyperconverged server-storage hybrids, and EMC is working with sister company VMware to bring yet another way to market that could, in the end, be the preferred way for many enterprise customers. …

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VMware Takes On All-Flash Arrays With VSAN

February 10, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Server virtualization juggernaut VMware was reluctant to take on the storage area establishment most aptly represented by its parent company, EMC, with virtual storage area network storage software aimed at commodity hardware. …

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Convergence Gets Hyper In The Datacenter

January 4, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The way that systems are being built is changing, and the way that the winners and losers are tracked as they peddle their wares into the datacenter has to change to reflect that. …

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