Posts Tagged ‘Converged Infrastructure’
Cloud Life Cycle Management: Now That I Have It, How Do I Patch It?
The complexity associated with patching, service packs, hotfixes, upgrades and firmware updates, defined as general life cycle activities, are nothing new to IT professionals. This has been an ongoing effort for many years now, and we have all come to expect that vendors will provide regular updates that include bug fixes, security patches and feature enhancements. We have all experienced that common call to technical support to be greeted by the phrase: “are you running the most recent updates?” While the cloud doesn’t change the need for these updates; it can, however, substantially simplify the process and reduce planned downtime.. Read More »
To Converge or Not to Converge, That Is the Question
One of the largest growth areas in the datacenter throughout 2011 has been the concept of a Converged Infrastructure, and everyone wants a piece of the pie including HP, IBM, Dell, and VCE (the VMware, Cisco, EMC alliance). All of these manufacturers will tell you that converged infrastructure is the greatest thing to happen to the X86 space in the datacenter since, well, we started building datacenters. However, like any technology, this is not a one size fits all solution. Read More »
