The fact that we are talking about disaggregated hyperconvergence (dHCI) as a genuine product category should be a warning sign in itself. It's an indicator of a bad habit. We keep postponing the job ...

For cash- and talent-strapped agencies, software-defined data centers bring cost savings and scalability to compute, storage and networking functions. From the CIO’s perspective, hyperconverged ...

I’ve been covering technology and computing since the client-server days of the early 1990s. A lot has changed since then. But some things haven’t changed. Not at all. One of those is the pretentious, ...

We spend a lot of time at The Next Platform thinking about technologies that trickle down from on high – whether they come from HPC centers or hyperscalers – and gradually go mainstream and end up in ...

“Over the past several years, the emergence of software-defined networking has pushed data center designs to evolve from three-layer topologies to leaf-spine topologies,” said Dave Fredricks, data ...

Hyperconvergence is on a roll. Enterprises are shifting storage investments from legacy architectures to software-defined systems in an effort to achieve greater agility, easier provisioning and lower ...

Hyperconvergence may never be a household word, but in Silicon Valley, last year’s booming initial public offering of Nutanix Inc. has pushed more big tech companies to jump into the young technology ...

The fast-growing appeal of hyperconvergence software makes a lot of sense. Compared to the appliance model, which delivers a box with hardware and software bundled together, a true software model ...

One of the hottest trends in data center technology is hyperconvergence, with early adopters reaping the benefits of cost savings, enhanced data protection, increased scalability and ease of ...

When IT leaders at small and medium-sized businesses hear the term converged infrastructure, they might initially think the technology is suitable for companies with big data centers. But even small ...

All across Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, employees from Francis Drilling Fluids roam to help the company’s oil and gas drilling customers. To serve its far-flung customer base efficiently, FDF has 23 ...