Posted by Mark Campbell
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
Posted by Mark Campbell
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
Posted by Mark Campbell
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
Posted by Mark Campbell
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
Posted by Mark Campbell
What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor? Make me one with everything. I think of this joke every time someone tells me that they have a single answer to a complex problem. Unfortunately, t...Read More
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Henry Ford once famously said of his incredibly successful Model T that a customer could have their car painted any color – as long as that color was black. What’s not quite so famous is...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
Posted by Mark Campbell
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
Posted by Mark Campbell
We’ve reviewed the trends associated with data center IP traffic growth and the sources of that growth; now let’s look at the trends associated with the workloads running in data centers. ...Read More