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Getting Edgy About Hyperconverged Storage

February 11, 2019 Jeffrey Burt 1

Hyperconverged infrastructure has grown up quite a bit from its early days, when it was seen primarily as a way of supplying an affordable and easy-to-deploy solution for supporting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. …

Compute

VMware’s Platform Can Only Reflect The Enterprise Datacenter

April 18, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

When a company has 500,000 enterprise customers that are paying for perpetual licenses and support on systems software – this is an absolutely enormous base by corporate standards, and a retro licensing model straight from the 1980s and 1990s – what does it do for an encore? …

Compute

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. …

Compute

Riding The Virtual SAN Gravy Train

April 24, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Being the first mover in establishing a new technology in the enterprise is important, but it is not more important than having a vast installed base and sales force peddling an existing and adjacent product set in which to sell a competing and usually lagging technology. …

Cloud

AWS And VMware Acquaint As Strange Cloudfellows

October 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

What happens when the world’s largest public cloud and the biggest peddler of server virtualization in the enterprise team up to create a hybrid cloud? …

Compute

Inside VMware Before It Dons The Dell Invisibility Cloak

August 30, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Where do you go when you are an infrastructure software provider that already has 500,000 enterprise customers? …

Compute

Nutanix Squeezes Lots More Performance From Server-SAN Hybrid

February 16, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

One of the big issues with any complex piece of distributed software is getting the most performance out of the scale inherent in the system. …

Compute

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. …

Enterprise

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. …

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.” …

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