The Many Sides of Virtual Networking

SDN and NFV aren’t mutually exclusive and the enterprise data center will eventually need both, but the differences between them still pose difficult choices.

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The Challenges of Running Containers at Scale

It seems the enterprise is approaching container technology with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation as it seeks to establish architectures that offer broader scalability and are more suitable to microservices than standard virtualization.

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Rethinking the Economics of DCIM

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is one of those product categories that sounds too good to be true, but cost and complexity prevent most organizations from seriously considering it as a near-term initiative.

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Striving Toward Unified Enterprise Infrastructure

Most enterprises are already realizing some of the benefits of cloud computing in the form of lower capital and operating costs, better scalability and access to more modern, robust infrastructure.

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Resources at the Ready, and Who Cares Where They Sit?

The idea of fully outsourcing data infrastructure to the cloud is still novel enough to give many CIOs the shivers. But now that end-to-end data environments can be configured entirely in software, the notion is not as radical as it once was.

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Where is SDN Taking the Network?

If the pundits and market analysts are to be believed, SDN is about to remake the enterprise. But what kind of network – if that name even applies – will be left in its wake when all is said and done? And how will this change what we have come to know as the networking industry?

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Embracing Technology Without Losing Your Humanity

Most enterprises these days are well on the road to virtualized infrastructure and are ready to move into the fast lane with advances like software-defined networking (SDN); Big Data architecture; and converged, modularized hardware. But at some point, it’s worth it to stop and ask, is any of this actually improving business processes and services or merely changing the underlying support mechanisms?

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Tips to Achieving a Successful Cloud Strategy

There aren’t too many people in enterprise circles that want the cloud to fail. Even the system vendors who stand to lose lucrative revenue streams are still pulling for the cloud, if only to get in on the ground floor of the new data reality.

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Dealing with the Complexity of Cloud Storage

Storage has long been the main draw of the cloud, both for consumer and professional enterprise users. But there is a big difference between bulk storage and the kinds of advanced architectures required of complex data environments. So the question many organizations face these days is not whether to store data in the cloud, but how.

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Embrace, Don’t Fight, Digital Transformation

By now, the phrase “digital transformation” has made its way into the c-suite conversations at most enterprises. The idea is that emerging digital infrastructure, apps, services and other advancements will produce changes not only to the technical aspects of modern commerce but the processes, business models and even the very markets that drive economic activity.

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