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.

April 04, 2022 04 Apr'22
Environmental campaigners halt Meta datacentre construction in the Netherlands

Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country
March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22
Executive interview: Rajiv Ramaswami, CEO, Nutanix

We speak to the CEO of Nutanix about growing up in India, the switch from engineering to business leader, and mentoring
March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22
Public cloud giants fuel double-digit growth in datacentre hardware and software spend

Research reveals how the datacentre buildout plans of the public cloud giants are affecting hardware and software spend
March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22
NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware

The role of infrastructure as code in edge datacentre computing

As datacentre computing is pushed to the edge of the organisation’s network, IT has to address the overheads associated with remote server management Continue Reading
Software firm saves storage array costs with Nutanix hyper-converged

Banking SaaS provider Vialink needed more IOPS when its NetApp arrays slowed up, but Nutanix hyper-converged proved a better package than Pure Storage and Dell EMC, too Continue Reading
Hybrid cloud storage: Options for rearchitecting enterprise IT

Hybrid cloud is seen as a way to have the best of both the on-premise and public cloud worlds. We look at the pros and cons of hybrid cloud storage Continue Reading

Cloud - Infrastructure - Security - SASE - Discuss!

Over the past 12 months, I’ve regularly talked about sassy SASE in this blog. But I’m not the only one. A recent Netevents interactive debate had several vendors debating SASE as part of a general ... Continue Reading

Server virtualisation is far from dead

Server virtualisation must be looked upon with an expanded and fresh perspective amid the growing adoption of containers and Kubernetes. Here are seven server virtualisation trends to watch Continue Reading
Avoid complexity in data storage decisions

With more options for on- and off-premise data storage, the need for simplicity is greater than ever Continue Reading
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