Carsten Beyer, project manager at BHF-Bank, says, "We realized that only an off-the-data-path architecture could answer our requirements regarding a highly available and highly scalable SAN."
Other vendors talking about asymmetric virtualization but still not shipping anything today include EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC), Veritas Software Corp. (Nasdaq: VRTS), and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ). "It's all just architectures and white papers at those companies," Fischer says. "This technology is an enormous step in the deployment of SANs. We need this tool if SANs are to grow beyond ten servers."
It looks as though virtualization is gradually moving out of the hype zone and into real deployments -- especially in Germany, for some reason (see Pforzheim Goes Virtual
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for Juniper Networks, explains how the advanced technology is transforming operations.
Contact center leaders from 8x8, Awaken Intelligence, and 360insight discuss the importance of agent experience.
AI may force enterprises to rewire parts of their data centers so they are fully optimized to run such workloads. The question is do you use Ethernet or InfiniBand?
