Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems
Find up-to-date news and tips for choosing, implementing, managing and working with hyper-converged systems – technology that combines storage, networking, compute and virtualization in one node with a goal of simple scalability and deployment.
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How to Craft a Converged Secondary Storage Strategy with Care
In this expert guide, receive answers to 7 fundamental questions, an analysis of Asigra, Cohesity, HPE and Rubrik hyper-converged secondary storage products, key benefits of converged secondary storage and cautions, and much more.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems News
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October 15, 2019
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Steel company mines value with Scale Computing HC3 cluster
Harrison Steel Castings outgrew its converged system and swapped it out for Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure, which uses open source KVM virtualization.
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September 17, 2019
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Dell Technologies’ evolution offers hints of its future
Dell’s evolution has led the company from PCs to servers, storage and virtualization. Here, Dell’s storage CTO describes what could come next.
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September 17, 2019
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Dell storage dominance followed $67B grab of EMC, VMware
Dell packages servers, storage for EMC and virtualization from VMware into an end-to-end IT stack; how will it expand and deliver those pieces over the coming decades?
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September 17, 2019
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New Dell EPYC servers embrace AMD Rome chips
Dell EMC goes from Naples to Rome with a new line of EPYC servers, including Ready Solutions for high-performance computing and Ready Nodes for vSAN hyper-converged infrastructure.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems Get Started
Bring yourself up to speed with our introductory content
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Composable infrastructure platform flexes converged muscles
Composability tailors resources as unified services to specific workloads. Find out how it works and compares to converged and hyper-converged infrastructures. Continue Reading
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Put your composable infrastructure knowledge to the test
Are you up to speed on composable disaggregated infrastructure and technology? Take our quiz to find out if you know how composability works and how it can benefit you. Continue Reading
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Manage and provision storage for DevOps
Evaluate Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems Vendors & Products
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
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What are the Azure Stack HCI deployment, management options?
While the Windows Admin Center is one way to manage the Azure Stack HCI platform, you can also use traditional, battle-tested tools. Continue Reading
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Composable infrastructure techniques for the real world
Automating your composable infrastructure engenders flexibility that enables enterprises to reshape the data center and keep pace with today's cultural and technological shifts. Continue Reading
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Comparing Rubrik and Cohesity data backup and recovery tools
Although Rubrik and Cohesity offer similar features and functionality in their data protection and backup platforms, learn what differentiates these products from one another. Continue Reading
Manage Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems
Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
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Top tips for moving workloads to hyper-converged technology
Take security and management seriously when migrating workloads to HCI. Closely evaluate supporting systems -- and the applications and hyper-converged system itself --- as well. Continue Reading
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What are the Azure Stack HCI features?
An Azure Stack HCI system relies on Windows Server 2019 to deliver the software-defined compute, storage and networking technologies that integrate with the OEM hardware. Continue Reading
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How to address HCI's resource provisioning challenges
Provisioning in hyper-convergence is often imbalanced. Integrating more powerful, higher-capacity nodes with HCI software or taking a more hybrid approach can help. Continue Reading
Problem Solve Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems Issues
We’ve gathered up expert advice and tips from professionals like you so that the answers you need are always available.
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Docker Containers as a Service deployment simplified on HPE Synergy
Reference Configuration guides the deployment of the complete Docker-based Containers-as-a-Service platform on HPE Synergy composable infrastructure to simplify container use. Continue Reading
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Integration as a Service (IaaS)
Integration as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud-based delivery model that strives to connect on-premise data with data located in cloud-based applications. Continue Reading
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Build a Hyper-V home lab in Windows Server 2019
Production servers aren't the place to experiment with Microsoft's Hyper-V technology. This guide helps you build a lab tailored for a nested virtualization environment. Continue Reading