Bringing it all together!
Unified Computing is the advancement toward the next generation data center that links all resources together in a common architecture to reduce the barrier to entry for data center virtualization. In other words, the compute and storage platform is architecturally “unified” with the network and the virtualization platform. What are the benefits in doing this? Virtualization architectures today are very much “assembly required” islands where the burden of systems integration is on the customer. This increases costs and deployment times while decreasing efficiency.
Unified Computing eliminates this manual integration in favour of an integrated architecture and breaks down the silos between compute, virtualization, and connect. IT architectures are changing -becoming increasingly distributed, utilizing more open standards and striving for automation. IT has traditionally been very good at automating everything but IT! Unified Computing and automation at an architectural level can lower operating costs while extending capital assets.
As the world becomes increasing interconnected, the network delivers more value. The value of a connected component is greater than that of an isolated one -a storage array must connect to servers to be valuable and a server must connect to clients and other servers to be valuable.
Unified Computing is a major inflection point in the data center and we see companies benefiting from a common architecture linking all data center resources together. Virtualization architectures today are very much “assembly required” islands/silos where the burden of systems integration is on the customer. This increases costs and deployment times while decreasing efficiency.
Unified Computing eliminates the manual integration in favor of an integrated architecture that breaks down the silos between compute, storage, virtualization, and network platforms. Unified Computing unifies the three distinct virtualization arenas – network virtualization, storage virtualization and server virtualization – into one common architecture, within industry standard technologies and with the network as the platform.
