Posted by Mark Campbell
In my last post we discussed the ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) direct white box hardware; in this post we’ll discuss the concept of SDx (Software-Defined Everything – also abbreviated...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
In my previous post, I pointed out that unified systems are an important trend to consider for next generation data centers and illustrated with the chart above showing the success of Cisco’s UC...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
There’s a revolution going on in the server market. No – that’s an understatement. There are two revolutions going on in the server market. And both dramatically impact the nex...Read More
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Solid state drives (SSDs) aren’t new in the data center for high performance use cases. What is changing rapidly is cost – which is increasingly enabling IT staff to use them in a more u...Read More
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Containers are being touted by many as the next big thing. What are containers? Containers are a form of lighter weight virtualization that allows the sharing of the operating system among the host ...Read More
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The chart above, courtesy of Cloud Spectator, illustrates quantitatively the points made in my last post (part 10: bare metal cloud) regarding the reason that physical servers continue to be so perva...Read More
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One of the major problems with the mantra of “virtualize everything” is the stubborn refusal of physical servers to disappear. This of course is a major irritant to virtualization compan...Read More
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The essence of what we’ve discussed to date is the problem – dramatically rising numbers of virtual and physical servers, exploding data traffic and at-rest data – all managed by a r...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
When I’m talking to buyers, customers, partners, and analysts, I typically summarize all of the data center trends using the chart above. It’s from IDC’s Digital Universe Study ...Read More
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In our final post on next generation data center trends, we thought we’d simply show you as of mid-2014 estimates of the number of servers in some of the largest and best known data centers R...Read More