Virtual Networking Fuels Multi-Rate Switching

Multi-rate devices give enterprises the flexibility they need for SDN and NFV.

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The Growing Necessity of Real-Time Networking

Streaming analytics, the Internet of Things and hybrid cloud computing are driving the need for faster network performance.

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IT Automation Has Only Just Begun

Amid all the tension that surrounds IT automation these days, it could very well turn out that by the end of the decade, 2017 will seem like the calm before the storm.

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VM Density: A Question of Balance

Server infrastructure is shrinking in the enterprise. This makes a lot of sense because as more workloads are pushed to the cloud, the need for local resources is diminishing.

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The Devops Chicken or the Agile Infrastructure Egg?

Does devops lead to agile, or does agile lead to devops? Or perhaps they move in tandem as the enterprise gropes its way through digital transition. And if that’s the case, is optimized, automated infrastructure the cause or the effect of this new IT model?

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For Scale, It’s Best to Go Modular

The enterprise seems content to build and maintain local data infrastructure despite the cost and flexibility benefits that exist on the public cloud, but that does not mean they will continue with the complex, silo-laden data centers of today.

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Working Toward the Integrated Hybrid Cloud

Enterprises that wade into hybrid cloud infrastructure quickly come to a startling reality: Virtualization and hardware abstraction do not eliminate data silos all by themselves.

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Big Computing Emerges in Many Forms

In the era of Big Data, the enterprise will have to embrace Big Computing in one form or another. But exactly how this is to be done at a reasonable price point and with reasonable simplicity is still an open question, as is whether the knowledge to be gleaned from all this number crunching will prove beneficial in any meaningful way.

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Optical Networks in the Hyperscale Era

Hyperscale data centers are starting to crop up all over the world, providing both the scale and the resource density needed to handle the massive workloads of big data and the internet of things.

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Devising the Right SDN Strategy

Enterprises should approach software-defined infrastructure as a journey rather than a destination.

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