One of the advantages of a private cloud architecture is the flexible pooling of resources that allows rapid change to match business demands. These resource pools adapt to the changing demands of existing services and allow for new services to be deployed rapidly. For these pools to maintain adequate performance, they must be designed to handle peak periods and this will also result in periods with idle cycles… To see the full article visit Network Computing: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/231903031.
The Power of Innovative Datacenter Stacks
With the industry drive towards cloud computing models there has been a lot of talk and announcements around ‘converged infrastructure’ ‘integrated stack’ solutions. An integrated stack is pre-packaged offering typically containing some amount of network, storage, and server infrastructure bundled with some level of virtualization, automation, and orchestration software. The…
The Art of Pre-Sales Part II: Showing Value
Part I of this post http://www.definethecloud.net/the-art-of-pre-sales received quite a few page views and positive feedback so I thought I’d expand on it. Last week on the Twitters I made a comment re sales engineers showing value via revenue ($$) and got a lot of feedback. I thought I’d expand on…
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We Live in a Multi-Cloud World: Here’s Why
It’s almost 2019 and there’s still a lot of chatter, specifically from hardware vendors, that ‘We’re moving to a multi-cloud world. This is highly erroneous. When you hear someone say things like that, what they mean is ‘we’re catching up to the rest of the world and trying to sell…