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Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Mav Turner with ideas about how the government could monitor and automate their hyperconverged infrastructure to help achieve their modernization objectives. It’s no surprise hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)…
This is the second of a series of five posts on the market space for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). To be clear, as the previous blog post outlined, there are many options in this space. Evaluation of your needs and clear understanding of why you want to choose a solution shouldn’t be made lightly. Complete…
In this third post on the subject, I’ll discuss hyperconverged architectural approaches. I want to share some of my experiences in how and why my customers have taken different choices, not to promote one solution over another, but to highlight why one approach may be better for your needs than another. As I’ve alluded to…
There have been so many changes in data center technology in the past 10 years, it’s hard to keep up at times. We’ve gone from a traditional server/storage/networking stack with individual components, to a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) where it’s all in one box. The data center is more software-defined today than it…
Here’s the fifth part of the series I’ve been writing regarding HCI. Again, I don’t want to sway my audience from one platform to another. Rather, I want them to follow the edict caveat emptor. It’s mission-critical for the future of the environment we’re talking about here for the buyer to be aware of the available…
This is the fourth post of my series on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) architectural design and decision-making. For my money, the differences between these diverse systems is a function of the storage involved in the design. On the compute side, these environments use x86 and a hypervisor to create a cluster of hosts…
This is the first of a five-part series on HCI. I hope you enjoy and this prompts discussion. Please feel free to reach out to me, either here or via Twitter at @MBLeib. What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? Hyperconverged infrastructure is one of the new hot areas of technology in the IT data center space. Like most…
HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) is the flavor of the year for organizations looking to upgrade datacenters. This coupled with the industry term SDN (Software Defined Networking) which is the de-coupling of the control and data planes are make huge leaps forward in web scalability. Newer companies like Nutanix have…
Hello Thwack! I’m the UI designer at SolarWinds. My goal is to improve the user experience with each release. We want Orion to be easy to use and nice to look at. There’s a lot we want to do to make usability better, but only so much we can fit into each release. I’m currently sizing some UI improvements, and I want to…
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