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Software-Defined Data Centers: What Lies Ahead?

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The “software-defined” term, applied as a modifier to data center, networks or storage, is growing in popularity. Software-defined solutions, like virtualization did before them, can allow for a great deal of flexibility and efficiency of shared resources.

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The Road to Software-Defined Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

New logical systems are capable of introducing amazing optimizations for the data center platform as well as your business model. Virtualization data center software-defined technologies'

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Avaya Launches Software-Defined Data Center Framework

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Leveraging OpenStack and its own Fabric Connect technology, Avaya launched its software-defined data center framework and roadmap. Avaya''s Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) framework uses the OpenStack cloud computing platform. Networking Virtualization avaya SDDC'

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VMware Drives Software-Defined Data Center Vision Forward

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VMware unveiled its next generation architecture for further enabling the software-defined data center, including new innovations in network virtualization, VirtualSAN, vCloud, and vSphere with Operations Management 5.5, Cloud Computing Events Virtualization VMware' at its annual event, VMWorld.

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Building the Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today.

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Nutanix OS 3.5 Advances Virtual Data Center Operations

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version of the Nutanix OS (NOS) intelligent software for building and operating virtual data centers was released Tuesday - adding elastic deduplication and a more robust platform, with user-center design. Storage nutanix NOS'

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Right-Sizing Data Center Resources

CTOvision

One of the perennial problems of data centers is monitoring server utilization to ensure right-sizing of resources. Having too few resources can lead to overprovisioning, which can cause downtime as virtual machines become starved for compute, memory, and storage. Nlyte: For Data Center Infrastructure Management (ctovision.com).