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What Converged Infrastructure Brings to a Private Cloud

The major categories of on-hand data resources - compute, memory, networking and storage – need to be exactly that, on-hand. However, the piecewise addition of more SAN equipment and networking, along with each new round of servers, created more and more colossal interconnections.

This concise expert e-guide provides a detailed overview of converged infrastructure, or what our editors like to call “hardware that’s designed with virtualization and the cloud in mind.” Read on now to learn how a private cloud can act as an enabler of converged infrastructure and what benefit this can provide to your business.

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