How Converged Infrastructure Is Impacting Cloud and Business Demands

Grazed from WindowsIT Pro. Author: Bill Kleyman.

New kinds of workloads, user demands and infrastructure technologies are affecting how data center providers deploy and utilize various critical resources. Organizations across all verticals are changing the way they control and distribute resources, which includes looking for more efficient ways to create a scalable data center ecosystem. With global data center IP traffic expected to grow threefold during the next five years, new kinds of data center technologies have to be implemented to create cloud-ready scalability.

Indeed, cloud computing is no longer in its infancy. In fact, organizations have evolved from private to public to hybrid cloud platforms—and combinations thereof. Moving forward, the cloud model will give end users even more services and benefits. Gartner recently stated that cloud technology is now being used for anything that can be reasonably hosted on virtualized x86-based servers…

The most common use cases for cloud IaaS (infrastructure as a service) are development and testing environments; high-performance computing and batch processing; Internet-facing websites; and Web-based applications. Furthermore, an increasing number of organizations are running mission-critical business applications on cloud-ready platforms…

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