Why converged infrastructure is crucial to the data center

Summary:

GigaOM Research projects that the cloud computing market will grow from $70.1 billion in 2012 to $158.8 billion in 2014. This adoption comes with a compensatory need for sustainable performance from cloud service providers. However, this increased performance cannot be sustained if the corresponding cost to the service provider (SP) for delivering this performance also increases. What service providers need is a way of delivering low latency, fast response, and increasing performance while minimizing the cost of the network.

  1. Executive summary
  2. What are the stress points in a cloud infrastructure?
  3. Why is storage acceleration critical?
  4. The trend toward convergence
  5. Network options
  6. Case studies
  7. About Benjamin S. Woo
  8. About GigaOM Pro

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