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10 Requirements for Getting Hired as a Converged Infrastructure Specialist

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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The Choice Is Yours: Convergence vs. Cloud

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You’ve got a substantial workload running on aging hardware. Eventually that hardware will reach end of life, and before that time you will need to figure out what to do with the applications running on it. You can migrate the workload to new hardware, or you can forego an on-premises deployment entirely and move the workload to the cloud.

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Why Long-Term Application Commitments Are Key to Effectively Leveraging Converged Architecture

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Converged architecture is tied to workload in a way that general-purpose hardware is not. For this reason, organizations need to make sure that the workloads they intend to run on converged architecture will reside on premise for the foreseeable futu… Continue reading Why Long-Term Application Commitments Are Key to Effectively Leveraging Converged Architecture→