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Citrix Synergy 2017
Citrix Synergy 2017 kicked off on Tuesday morning with the main keynote from President and CEO Kirill Tatarinov. As expected, the main keynote was focused on high-level discussions about the future of virtualization. While the key focus of Citrix is clearly Cloud, he relayed a stronger understanding that on-premises deployments of Citrix technologies are alive and …
HCI Benefits Without HCI, Part 1: Physical
Do you need to buy an HCI product to get the benefits of a hyperconverged system? I don’t believe that storage and compute need to be on the same physical server to get the big HCI benefits. I think you can get some of the biggest value that HCI delivers without using HCI. The big …
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Sensor – Fog – Cloud: An IoT Revolution
The new architecture is a sensor net talking to a fog talking to a cloud. This sounds complex, but it is not. This is where many hardware companies can come forward, and where hyperconverged can have a huge impact. The architecture seems simple, but is not. There are quite a few moving parts, all based …
VDI Needs Hypervisor Integration
One of the big issues for virtual desktop infrastructure has always been controlling the cost per user without compromising the user experience. Another common thing has been that the largest VDI vendors each have had their own hypervisor. One of the significant elements of controlling cost is to automate the creation of the user’s desktop …
IoT Puts On-Premises Back on the Agenda
There has been plenty of discussion about what the Internet of Things (IoT) means for IT and for storage vendors. The usual answer is that IoT will soon be the largest consumer of storage. Our basic expectation is that IoT will feed a lot of object storage in the cloud or in central corporate data …