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Explore compelling benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure

Better support remote office/branch office environments and address budgetary, efficiency, scaling and operational challenges with hyper-converged infrastructure.

By Scott Lowe • Nov. 14, 2019

Get to know Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure products in-depth

Nutanix products are major players in the hyper-convergence market. As a pioneer, Nutanix introduced one of the first HCIs and has modified and expanded its offerings ever since.

By James Alan Miller • Nov. 14, 2019

Converged vs. hyper-converged infrastructure requirements

Companies considering convergence should compare the features, benefits and limitations of CI and HCI, and look at which workloads drive organizations to data center convergence.

By James Alan Miller • Nov. 13, 2019

Are Nutanix products hyper-converged hardware, software or cloud?

Nutanix may still offer branded appliances, but there is a lot more to the hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer's product offerings than that nowadays.

By James Alan Miller • Nov. 12, 2019

Dell EMC PowerOne, On Demand add cloud-like pricing

Dell EMC expands storage-as-a-service pricing, launches PowerOne converged stack for IT users looking for the "Holy Grail" of cloud pricing and on-premises management.

By Dave Raffo • Nov. 12, 2019

Microsoft quantum development turns toward hardware

Microsoft revealed plans to jump into the quantum hardware business with a chip capable of running quantum software.

By Ed Scannell • Nov. 11, 2019

How to upgrade from VCSA 6.5 to 6.7 -- both online and off

Use the online VCSA management interface, VAMI, or an ISO file from VMware to get started with your online or offline VCSA upgrade.

By Vladan Seget • Nov. 11, 2019

New hardware, use cases shape server benchmarking needs

Advancements in server hardware help admins address the latest data-intensive use cases. But this brings questions about the place of industrywide benchmarking standards.

By Jessica Lulka • Nov. 7, 2019

Manage Windows Server HCI with Windows Admin Center

Download and install Microsoft's free and easy-to-use Windows Admin Center to manage local and remote Windows Server-based hyper-converged infrastructure clusters.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 7, 2019

Which converged infrastructure vendors are businesses considering?

Today's fast-paced business landscape has led enterprises to increasingly turn to convergence vendors. See why, which they are choosing and who leads the market.

By James Alan Miller • Nov. 6, 2019

Illustrated guide to VMware vSAN HCI configuration and features

VMware vSAN software benefits enterprises by tightly integrating, virtualizing and pooling server resources to ease infrastructure deployment, management and implementation.

By James Alan Miller • Nov. 6, 2019

Everything you need to know about composable infrastructure

Composability abstracts resources as services that can be dynamically composed and recomposed for specific applications. Learn about its many advantages, and why it isn't for everyone.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 6, 2019

Top guidelines for edge computing software selection

Finding edge software that meets all your organization's needs requires help from both the business and IT sides. Get the right fit with use case information and developer input.

By George Lawton • Nov. 5, 2019

Dell EMC upgrades VxRail appliances for AI, SAP HANA

As hyperconverged infrastructure use cases expand, Dell EMC adds analytics, flash and network management to VxRail platform built on PowerEdge servers.

By Dave Raffo • Nov. 4, 2019

3 PowerCLI snapshot management cmdlets you can use

You can use PowerCLI to manage snapshots in vSphere. With just three cmdlets, you can create, revert to and remove snapshots to keep your environment running smoothly.

By Dan Franciscus • Nov. 4, 2019

VMware and Oracle join forces to ease management for customers

Despite a rocky past, VMware and Oracle have come together to enable customers to run VMware workloads on Oracle cloud infrastructures and Oracle cloud apps on VCF.

By Paul Korzeniowski • Nov. 4, 2019

Back up VMware environments with these best practices and tips

When you back up a VMware environment, use best practices to guide you, and weigh pros and cons of different methods. You can also automate backups and use third-party tools.

By Allyson Larcom • Nov. 1, 2019

Essential VxRail appliance hyper-converged questions answered

Find out what you need to know as you investigate if Dell EMC VxRail HCI with vSAN hyper-converged software meets the needs of your organization's workloads and use cases.

By James Alan Miller • Oct. 31, 2019

A look at HCI hardware maintenance

Resource forecasting, capacity planning and upgrade compatibility are essential components of hyper-converged infrastructure maintenance. Learn why admins must implement them.

By Alastair Cooke • Oct. 30, 2019

Put your VMware vSAN HCI knowledge to the test

Do you know what it takes to deploy, maintain and secure a VMware vSAN-based hyper-converged infrastructure? Take our quiz to see how deep your vSAN knowledge and expertise runs.

By James Alan Miller • Oct. 29, 2019

HPE brings InfoSight AI to SimpliVity HCI

HPE brings technologies from two 2017 acquisitions -- predictive analytics and hyper-convergences -- together with InfoSight on SimpliVity in hopes of giving SimpliVity a sales jolt.

By Dave Raffo • Oct. 28, 2019

What does an ESXi on ARM architecture look like?

When you run a hypervisor such as VMware ESXi on ARM architecture, consolidation shouldn't be your goal; isolation, sandboxing and management should be.

By Stephen Bigelow • Oct. 28, 2019

Learn which edge data center types are best to virtualize

You can implement ESXi on ARM -- or other RISC processors -- in micro and nano data centers. A nano data center is more specialized but also more limited than a micro data center.

By Stephen Bigelow • Oct. 28, 2019

What enterprises look for with converged data center projects

Learn about the state of the convergence market and what enterprises require for CI and HCI projects, the workloads they intend to run and which vendors are highest on their buying lists.

By James Alan Miller • Oct. 25, 2019

Implement edge virtualization to ease device management

Virtualization at the edge offers pros and cons. By virtualizing edge devices, admins can use a familiar management platform for devices both in and out of the data center.

By Stephen Bigelow • Oct. 25, 2019