VDI wasn’t meant to be so complicated During its inception in the early days, desktop virtualisation or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to give it its proper name, was seen as a magic bullet to give IT departments huge operational … Read More
Hyper Converged Infrastructure and the pursuit of simplicity.
Go to any IT conference and the resounding message from the people at the coalface is always ‘We want IT systems that are complicated to deploy, expensive and don’t deliver what they promise”. Did we get that wrong? Yes, … Read More
Punching above its weight – Nutanix vs. VCE Vblock
There’s a fight brewing in the growing Hyper Converged Infrastructure market. Hot on the heels of a positive review in the recent Gartner magic quadrant on integrated infrastructure, Nutanix has thrown down the gauntlet to infrastructure heavyweight, VCE Vblock, by launching a … Read More
What is Integrated Infrastructure and why should you care?
At its most basic level Integrated Infrastructure, also known as Hyper Converged Infrastructure is a validated configuration which combines physical compute, networking and storage resources to form a single “out-of-the-box” solution. You’ll also find included a single pane of … Read More
