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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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Why Hyperconvergence Hasn’t Yet Taken Off At The High End

August 6, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

We spend a lot of time at The Next Platform thinking about technologies that trickle down from on high – whether they come from HPC centers or hyperscalers – and gradually go mainstream and end up in the datacenters of large enterprises. …

Compute

First Ban The SAN, Then VMware

June 9, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The conventional wisdom these days is that the server virtualization hypervisor is a commodity, and as the executives at hyperconverged infrastructure upstart Nutanix are putting it as they rev their software stack, “it is the new sheet metal for the cloud era.” …

Enterprise

VMware Attacks Hyperconvergence From Three Sides

June 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Any new system architecture gets its best chance of being adopted in the enterprise when it is paired with a greenfield workload that is more or less isolated from other software running in the datacenter. …

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