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Virtual desktops have long held something of a mystique for CIOs as they attempt to drive down the overall costs of acquiring and maintaining what has become commodity technology -- the desktop computing environment. However, CIOs quickly discovered that the costs to implement a VDI solution that was done right were much…
What does this CI concept mean? A converged architecture is, to put it simply, a purpose built system, with the inclusion of Server, Storage, and Network, designed to ease the build of a centralized environment for the data center. By this I mean, there’re servers and storage combined with networking, so that with very…
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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…
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…
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