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Why the cloud will never eat the data center

Network World

Companies are already committed to a virtual form of networking for their WAN services, based on VPN s or SD-WAN , rather than building their own WANs from pipes and routers. That was a big step, so what could be happening to make WANs even more virtual, to the point where the cloud could subsume them?

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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”

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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).

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Creating Visibility into Your Cloud and Virtualized Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

learn the key considerations around visibility into a cloud and virtualized data center platform. As your business and IT models evolve. White Papers gigamon'

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The Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

I participated in the #DataCtrChat Twitter chat last week to join in on the conversation about the Agile Data Center. The #DataCtrChat is a great one to be a part of, especially if you’re interested in the data center. The question was: What differentiates an Agile Data Center from a traditional data center?

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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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Software-Defined Data Centers: What Lies Ahead?

Data Center Knowledge

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. The potential is great, but of course, Events Storage Virtualization'