Hyper-converged infrastructure
Hyper-converged infrastructure replaces discrete server, storage and networking equipment and puts it all in one box that is pre-configured for easy deployment. Usually, hyper-converged appliances come with a built-in virtualisation hypervisor plus scale-out capability so that nodes can be added to scale capacity and performance easily.
How Covid-19 is affecting the colocation market
This e-guide shares details of some of the latest trends and thinking in colocation, while also shining a light on how datacentre operators are rushing to meet the soaring demand for compute capacity they are seeing both from enterprises and hyperscale cloud firms.
News : Hyper-converged infrastructure
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November 24, 2020
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Pure adds block, Azure and convergence to as-a-service offerings
Pure customers can get its storage on-premise, in colocation or the cloud, and now it has added FlashArray C// block capacity and Flash Stack converged infrastructure to the catalogue
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November 10, 2020
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IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 consolidates storage push to cloud
The emphasis on 数字货币home and remote working has been felt in storage and backup as in all areas of IT, with continued evolution towards the cloud and as-a-service storage and backup
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November 10, 2020
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Canada ad firm subtracts 44U with HPE and Ctera hyper-converged
Glenn Davis Group slashed its hardware estate from 48U of rack space to 4U when it ditched its SAN and tape legacy kit for flash-based Ctera X Series and cloud backup
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September 29, 2020
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Red Hat rivals VMware and Nutanix with hyper-converged OCS 4.5
Red Hat’s OpenShift 4.5 extended container orchestration to virtual machines. The arrival of OCS 4.5 moves the solution into the realm of hyper-converged systems
In Depth : Hyper-converged infrastructure
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IP surveillance: The storage it needs, on-premise and in the cloud
Surveillance is changing, with the evolution from simple streams of sequential images to the application of AI to video, as well as an increasing move to use of the cloud 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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A peek into the future of storage
Flash-based storage is here to stay and will continue to be enhanced, even as helium and DNA are being primed for use in the distant future Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Hyper-converged infrastructure
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Is hyper-converged the answer to the NVMe bottleneck?
NVMe offers huge possibilities for flash storage to work at its full potential, at tens or hundreds of times what is possible now. But, but it’s early days, and there is no universally-accepted ... Continue Reading
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Load Balancing for security?
Load Balancing (LB), is now popping up on the corporate security agenda! LB is no longer just about managing traffic flows across enterprise routers and servers. In the age of the cloud and ... Continue Reading
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Storage predictions 2017: Hyper-converged to march on, and get NVMe
Hyper-converged infrastructure has been a rapidly rising star of the storage and datacentre scene in the past year or two. And it is predicted by Gartner that that rise will continue, with ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Hyper-converged infrastructure
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HPE's Simplivity purchase keeps hyper-convergence in the spotlight
Hyper-converged infrastructure is well and truly mainstream. 451 Research finds hyper-converged all set to become the number one platform for core datacentre workloads 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
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Hyper-converged products threaten standalone SAN and NAS
Hyper-converged storage/compute, such as IBM’s modular xSeries, poses a threat to standalone SAN/NAS in the datacentre Continue Reading