Connectivity between data centers is becoming a critical enterprise asset as organizations seek to scale infrastructure and push data and application processing closer to the edge. This is leading to a wealth of activity around the Data Center Interconnect (DCI), particularly in new optical platforms that strive to recreate local data performance over wide area infrastructure.
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It seems that orchestration is everywhere in enterprise circles these days. Whether it’s on the cloud, the software-defined infrastructure, or higher up the application stack, organizations are looking to coordinate an increasingly unwieldy set of resources into something resembling a unified data environment.
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The traditional enterprise vendors’ hold on the data center market is said to be shaky and growing weaker by the day as new cloud and white box solutions come into vogue. But by the numbers at least, it seems like the old guard is holding its own for the moment.
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It seems that everyone is worrying about disruption these days, whether it’s market disruption, business model disruption, or technology disruption.
Of course, it’s always better to be the disruptor than the disruptee…
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The hybrid cloud remains the prevailing narrative throughout the enterprise industry at the moment, although it does leave quite a bit of wiggle room regarding how much of the data infrastructure will remain on private resources and how much will go public.
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Competition is heating up in the enterprise market, particularly when it comes to building the infrastructure to handle Big Data and the Internet of Things. But unlike past eras when vendor titans duked it out for IT supremacy, the pressure these days is just as likely to come from the users of technology as the developers.
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Software defined networking (SDN) is usually characterized by its ability to simplify and amplify datacenter infrastructure. But the boundaries between the datacenter and the world around it are becoming increasingly thin, which is leading many developers to start thinking about SDN on the wide area network (WAN) as well.
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Storage is available at a fraction of the cost of just a few years ago, but the enterprise needs so much of it these days that the overall impact on operating budgets is largely a wash.
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As we head toward self-service, hardware-agnostic, cloud-facing infrastructure, it makes one wonder if IT will have anything to do at all in a few years.
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Click here The enterprise is clearly poised for a dramatic increase in the use of cloud infrastructure for its standard workloads, and even some mission-critical functions as well. But concerns still linger, most of them related to the lack of visibility that occurs once data and applications cross the firewall.
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