Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

HP – Top of Rack. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. I predict environments where customers will have hardware designed to take full advantage of Cisco’s ACI architecture but will just be managed by some other SDN solution that integrates with multiple network hardware solutions. Arista – Top of Rack.

Vmware 78

Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), From an architectural perspective, this approach may also be referred to as a compute fabric or Processing Area Network.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100