Is Converged Infrastructure the Future of Cloud Solutions?
December 30, 2014
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.
The idea is to build a cloud platform as efficiently as possible. That means having hardware components in place capable of handling high user demand, great levels of multi-tenancy, and advanced resource controls. So, is this why so many companies are starting to look more at converged infrastructures for their cloud and virtualization platform?
There are some new players on the market. Numerous vendors are creating powerful node-based server platforms capable of great amounts of scale. Nutanix, for example, says that their platform is already adopted by the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon. It does make sense though. Your organization can quickly build a “cloud-in-a-box” platform with everything you need…
Plus, you’re able to deploy a truly virtualization-ready environment which can scale on demand. It’s not a bad concept with quite a few benefits:…
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