Integrating Legacy Apps into Converged Environments

Citing convenience, cost reduction, flexibility, scalability and performance, more and more organizations are moving to integrated infrastructure models such as converged infrastructure.

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Converged Infrastructure and Healthcare: Know the Benefits

We’ve seen some big advancements in the healthcare data center world. There are new ways to deliver patient care, more ways to enable the healthcare practitioner and better ways to support the ever-evolving end user. Through it all, we’ve seen more applications, workloads and virtualization technologies being deployed into modern healthcare environments.

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10 Requirements for Getting Hired as a Converged Infrastructure Specialist

Converged infrastructure is gaining steam in the enterprise, and more and more organizations are looking for IT professionals who can help to fully exploit the technology—either as their job or as part of their job.

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Converged Architecture Hardware Is Resilient, but Backup Is Still a Must

Converged architecture systems provide an amazing level of hardware resiliency. Some businesses take this to mean that they no longer need to perform backup of data and workloads running on converged architecture. Nothing could be further from the tr… Continue reading Converged Architecture Hardware Is Resilient, but Backup Is Still a Must

How Converged Infrastructure Is Impacting Cloud and Business Demands

New kinds of workloads, user demands and infrastructure technologies are affecting how data center providers deploy and utilize various critical resources. Organizations across all verticals are changing the way they control and distribute resources,… Continue reading How Converged Infrastructure Is Impacting Cloud and Business Demands

Upfront Design Is Key with Converged Architecture

The converged architecture model has a number of benefits. You can reduce your overall data center footprint, support more business use cases, create greater levels of agility, and generally support the business in dealing with today’s dynamic market changes. With all of that said, when deploying converged architecture, you have to take design and resource utilization into consideration.

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Converged Architecture: Data Center, Yes; Branch Office, No

The key to understanding converged architecture is knowing which workloads are suitable for the technology—and which aren’t. Converged architecture is great for big workloads that are critical to your business—a SharePoint or Exchange deployment, for example, or the need to host a large number of virtual machines. With these kinds of big workloads, it is important that every drop of performance can be wrung out of your hardware.

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Three Tips for Optimizing Big Data Analytics

Every year, the amount and type of data companies must manage increases. Commonly called Big Data, this information—everything from social media posts, audio and images to transaction records, sensor data and video—continues growing unabated. According to IDC, data is growing at 40 percent per year and will continue to do so into the next decade.

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