Today, the terms converged and hyper-converged infrastructure are finding their way into more architecture discussions as well as management meetings. The trend is supported by efforts to build internal cloud services for applications or data that cannot move to a public cloud as well as the ongoing drive to squeeze costs out of IT.
Read moreYour application developers have been saying they can increase performance by moving your application to the cloud. Your boss is saying, “We should be doing some of this cloud thing I keep hearing about.” Your peers have moved at least one critical piece of information processing to a cloud services provider. Sound familiar? Today it seems everyone at every level begins or ends every conversation with the word “cloud.” So you think it might be time to buy a cloud, but where do you begin?
Read moreOn the surface, it would seem the explosive growth of the cloud should be turning data centers into relics of old-school computing. But the reality is quite the opposite. Data centers are more relevant and necessary than ever, all thanks to their ability to support the cloud with scalable data storage. In fact, the partnership of cloud and colocation is so successful that the market for global data-center colocation is predicted to grow from $25.07 billion in 2014 to $44.69 billion by the end of 2019.
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