Software-Defined Infrastructure and Convergence: Better Together

It’s no secret that most data centers today are too complicated, too labor-intensive to manage and too expensive to run. Study after study confirms that businesses of all sizes are looking for ways to address these issues.

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Understanding Converged Infrastructure Economics and Business Benefits

There has been a substantial amount of buzz in the market around the power of converged infrastructure and new types of use cases. Today, converged infrastructure aims to unify powerful data center resources and introduce new levels of economics for the business. It’s important to see just how much we’re advancing when it comes to data delivery and new types of devices connecting into the data center–and how all of this is impacting your business.

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Converged Infrastructure Adoption Rising Among Smaller Businesses

Slowly but surely, small and midsize businesses are beginning to adopt converged infrastructure solutions in larger numbers. A recent survey from Techaisle, a global SMB IT market research firm, found that 10 percent of small businesses and 27 percent of midmarket businesses—higher numbers than in the past—plan to incorporate some degree of converged infrastructure into their environments. As the market matures, Techaisle expects these numbers to grow even more.

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VDI and Converged Infrastructure: A Natural Fit

In the past five years, more and more businesses have adopted the desktop virtualization model, citing benefits such as efficiency, security, application data mobility, lower costs, and end user satisfaction. According to Technavio, the virtual deskt… Continue reading VDI and Converged Infrastructure: A Natural Fit

Getting to a State of Converged Infrastructure: When and How

There is a lot of conversation about converged infrastructure and how it impacts the modern data center. Today, these conversations are evolving into enterprise use-case and deployment scenarios.

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Automation Is Key to Systems Administration of Converged Architecture

When managing a converged architecture system, you need to have systems administration techniques that can scale in the same manner that you scale the converged architecture system itself. This means that rather than leveraging techniques that you might use to manage a small number of servers, you should transition to techniques that allow you to automate as much as possible, using tools including Microsoft’s PowerShell.

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Do-It-Yourself or Preconfigured: Which Makes Sense for Your Organization?

While most organizations today are convinced that converged infrastructure is an efficient, cost-effective and flexible way to boost data center capabilities, not all are approaching it the same way.

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Converged Architecture: Choose Your Management Tools Carefully

For most organizations, it can be painful to “rip and replace” older tools or management systems wholesale with the newer toolset of a converged infrastructure. It’s tempting to keep older tools that that have worked well for years, that IT staff know how to use, and that work with legacy applications that continue to run in the environment.

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