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Building a Data Center Roadmap

With automation and multicloud technologies impacting the data center, management services become more important.

By Urban Haas
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October 16, 2019
Data Center

Data centers have changed quite a bit since pizza boxes reigned supreme. We replaced those servers with virtualization, reducing our physical footprint and utilizing more of the CPUs and memory. Next came the idea of fully tested systems in the form of converged infrastructure: making sure different components of compute, storage and networking worked well…

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You’ve Implemented Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Now What?

For many organizations, deploying HCI is the start of a larger effort to transform and simplify the data center.

By Michael Lapetino
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August 19, 2019
Data Center

Often, I hear people talk about hyperconverged infrastructure as though it’s still an emerging, almost experimental solution. But the reality is that many organizations have deployed hyperconvergence — which combines storage, computing and networking into a single system — for years. As these organizations have learned, HCI can have a significant impact on their IT…

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Measuring and Prioritizing IT with Managed Services

Nutanix Performance Pack is helping organizations get started with managed services.

By Steve Lonski  and Chris Jostock
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June 6, 2019
Services, Data Center

Many enterprises know and understand the role and the associated benefits an integrated managed services partner can bring to their IT functions — but what about mid-market organizations, those maybe not sure how to evaluate and measure the benefits of managed services partnerships? Many IT managers and leaders are struggling with this quandary today —…

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How IT Modernization Helps State and Local Agencies Simplify Data Centers

When state, county and municipal agencies update their data centers, they also have an opportunity to streamline their IT operations.

By Andrew Wall
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May 3, 2019
Data Center, Cloud, Services

Like their peers in other industries, state and local IT leaders are interested in modernization, but budget constraints often stand in the way. In my experience working with government agencies, many organizations wait five years or even longer to upgrade their data center infrastructures. One obvious consequence of maintaining this legacy infrastructure is suboptimal performance….

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4 Technologies That Support the Move to Software-Defined Data Centers

The SDDC reduces administrative burdens on IT shops, freeing up staffers for projects that create business value.

By Paul Schaapman
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January 30, 2019
Data Center, Cloud, Networking, Software

In the past decade, organizations across all industries have come to realize that new technologies and methodologies can eliminate many of the management challenges that have traditionally been a part of supporting email and other applications. Today, the same thing is happening with storage, computing and networking. While cloud software has streamlined software support, technologies…

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Transform Your Infrastructure with NetApp HCI

Hyperconvergence offers guaranteed performance and independently scaling nodes.

By Troy Brick-Margelofsky  and Brandon Jackson
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December 18, 2018
Data Center, Cloud, Services

It’s been about three years since NetApp bought SolidFire, a maker of all-flash storage systems for data center applications. The acquisition was part of NetApp’s new Data Fabric strategy, which promised to simplify management across on-premises and cloud resources. Today, that work is paying off for organizations looking to transform their data environments with hyperconverged…

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