Of course, I always encourage practitioners to carefully study the full EMA research report on the “Obstacles and Priorities on the Journey to the Software-Defined Data Center” or at least read the research study summary or at the very least join the EMA SDDC Research webinar on February 18, but I still want to briefly summarize the key findings here.
The State of the Software Defined Data Center
Topics:
Data center
IT Management
SDDC
network management
Systems Management
DevOps
Capital expenditure
Enterprise software
Jim Frey
Software Defined Data Center
Torsten Volk
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Diskless VDI: Resolving the VDI Storage Cost Bottleneck
Why pay $1,500 per virtual desktop, if you can have a physical machine of the same performance-level at half the cost. While the functional and maintenance advantages of virtual desktop computing are evident, the per machine CAPEX often is the key stumbling block for this type of project. It is very hard to convince your CFO to write a check for more money per virtual machine than it would cost to acquire physical desktops.
Topics:
Systems Management
Cisco Systems
Atlantis Computing
Atlantis ILIO
Capital expenditure
Storage Automation
Storage Virtualization
Virtual machine
IOPS
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