Principal Data Center Architect
In a world where software drives nearly every technology, the term software-defined everything (SDx) strikes me as a bit redundant. After all, what isn’t dependent on software these days? Even in the technologies we readily associate with hardware — storage, for instance — the magic is in the software that runs on top. To learn…
[sayit]In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, some organizations had a difficult time responding to the new IT needs of their end users. Shifting resources to accommodate a largely remote work environment proved to be a complicated endeavor. And, as IT staffers’ time and energies were focused on supporting these new workflows, routine maintenance…
Most IT managers understand the potential benefits of adopting orchestration and automation tools within their data centers to streamline the provisioning of private and public cloud resources. These solutions can dramatically speed up the time to value (the period between when a business need arises and when infrastructure fulfills that need). By automating manual tasks…
Enabling a significant amount of automation, composable frameworks are a welcome addition to just about any IT environment. A composable framework lets organizations treat physical compute, storage and network fabric resources as services, which can eliminate time-consuming manual tasks. Instead of configuring hardware to support each application, you can define application requirements for infrastructure using…
