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10 Requirements for Getting Hired as a Converged Infrastructure Specialist

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

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

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

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

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

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→

The Choice Is Yours: Convergence vs. Cloud

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

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

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

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→

Making Sense of the Internet of Things with Converged Infrastructure

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

The rapid growth of IoT devices is quickly becoming too much for many traditional IT infrastructures to handle.

Converged Infrastructure Versus Hyper-Converged Infrastructure in VDI

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

It’s getting easier all the time to delivery agility through VDI, thanks to converged and hyper-converged solutions.

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What Your Once and Future IT Teams Need to Know About Converged Infrastructure

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

There have been some big shifts happening in the world of cloud, the data center and the personnel who support it all. First of all, there is now a direct tie between the business and IT—the silos have been broken down, for the most part. In fact, an organization’s competitive advantage depends on the technologies the data center can deliver.

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Flash Multiplies the Benefits of Converged Infrastructure

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

The benefits of moving to a converged infrastructure are compelling enough to make it an extremely fast-growing area, and adding flash to a converged architecture multiplies those benefits.

Deploying VDI on Converged Infrastructure

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Windows IT Pro

IT organizations are looking at CI solutions that simplify and improve infrastructure management; CI can also enhance VDI.