Cloud Computing: Is Your Network Hyperconverged Yet?
August 27, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.
Hyperconverged IT systems (or hyper-converged networks if you prefer a hyphen and a rather less generic term than ‘systems’) are the new darlings of the software management community. Well, they will be if the major vendors behind these products and methodologies have their way.
Often spoken of in the same breath as the (dreaded) so-called ‘business and technology transformation process’, hyperconvergence is a logical bedfellow for the cloud computing, dashboard (and console-view) management and software-defined worlds that it emanates from. But what is it?…
Sexy infrastructure management, surely not?
Trying to make infrastructure management sexy is tough — so let’s try by working out how this all started. Well now, first the Earth cooled and then all the dinosaurs came. Sometime after the ice age, the French Renaissance and the invention of hot dogs the modern age of networking arrived sometime around teatime in the late 1950s. Not long afterwards we started plugging personal computers into those networks… and the rest is history…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2014/08/27/is-your-network-hyper-converged-yet/