There is little dispute tomorrow’s data center will become software-defined for reasons no one entirely anticipated even as recently as a few years ago. While companies have long understood the benefits of virtualizing the infrastructure of their data centers, the complexities and costs of integrating and managing data center hardware far exceeded whatever benefits that virtualization delivered. Now thanks to technologies such as such as the Internet of Things (IoT), machine intelligence, and analytics, among others, companies may pursue software-defined strategies more aggressively.
Deduplication appliances remain a foundational technology in corporate data centers for cost-effective short-term backup storage, disaster recoveries, and long-term data retention. The HPE StoreOnce 5650 and Dell EMC Data Domain 9300, along with their respective virtual appliances, are two product lines to which companies often turn to host their backup data. While these two product lines share some common feature functionality, six key points of differentiation between them persist which DCIG examines in its most recently released Pocket Analyst Report.
Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances radically simplify the data center architecture. These pre-integrated appliances accelerate and simplify infrastructure deployment and management. They combine and virtualize compute, memory, storage and networking functions from a single vendor in a scale-out cluster. As such, the stakes are high for vendors such as Dell EMC and Nutanix that are competing to own this critical piece of data center real estate.
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