Converged infrastructure
The converged infrastructure concept is finding favour with enterprises that want to move away from the traditional, horizontal datacentre hardware silos, and cut the time it takes to kit out their facilities. In a converged infrastructure stack, the required servers, storage and networking equipment are all packaged together in a single, software-defined package, which is usually optimised to run a specific workload or application.
Decentralising datacentres: The new challenges of security at the edge
In September 2020, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank, our panel of information and cyber security experts, considered the challenges inherent in decentralising the datacentre, and set out to answer the question, how can security professionals ensure such setups are just as secure as the traditional centralised model? Read more in this e-guide.
News : Converged infrastructure
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November 16, 2020
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Nov'20
Space DC eyes Indonesia datacentre market
Space DC opens first of two datacentres with reliability and green features to tap Indonesia’s growing demand for datacentres
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October 19, 2020
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Oct'20
BCS swaps out VMware for Nutanix AHV
Certified training and migration tools simplify IT industry body’s migration to the Nutanix hyper-converged environment
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September 15, 2020
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Sep'20
Nutanix bolsters Kubernetes playbook with managed service
Karbon Platform Services claims to ease container deployments in public and hybrid cloud environments in the emerging Kubernetes platform war
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August 05, 2020
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Aug'20
Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward
Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law
In Depth : Converged infrastructure
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Five hyper-converged infrastructure use cases to watch
We look at workloads ripe for hyper-converged infrastructure deployment. These include virtual servers and desktops, SMEs/remote offices, Kubernetes, and analytics and machine learning Continue Reading
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Intel Optane Persistent Memory aims to fill the gap DRAM can’t
We look at Optane and its PMem product that Intel believes will fill a big gap between memory and storage that DRAM technology just cannot deal with Continue Reading
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Edge computing environments: what you need to know
An edge case in business sits at the limits of what's viable, and edge computing requirements suggest a similar struggle Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Converged infrastructure
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Has the storage hardware lock-in had its day?
Two years ago I wrote that the storage industry was apparently ripe for huge change. The nub of my argument was that storage is a sector of the IT supplier world in which customers are forced to ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Converged infrastructure
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The rise of the ODMs: Should the branded hardware suppliers be worried?
The use of ODM datacentre hardware makes good economic sense for the hyperscale providers, but what about everyday enterprises? Continue Reading
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IT transformation brings storage transformation
IT departments’ moves away from specialised skills to generalist skillsets are fuelling the rise of easy-to-use hyper-converged infrastructure and all-flash storage systems Continue Reading