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Cloupia Expands Beyond Flexpod As They Update Their Offerings

Cloupia Expands Beyond Flexpod As They Update Their Offerings

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 20, 2012

Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based company offering automation and orchestration solutions, announced last week that they are enhancing their product to meet the needs of today’s enterprises and, also, signaled their intent to move beyond Flexpod in the converged infrastructure space (see previous story about Cloupia Flexpod validation). Now their powerful orchestration […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged automation, briefs, cloud management, cloupia, converged infrastructure, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, orchestration

Is agility and focus worth a price premium – on converged infrastructure costing more…

Is agility and focus worth a price premium – on converged infrastructure costing more…

By Ben Kepes on April 5, 2012

If we accept that the role of IT is to aid an organization in its strategic objectives, then it makes sense that any time it spends doing low level routine stuff is detrimental to that aim. Any technology that frees up IT to do higher order stuff, to really add value, should be embraced. Almost regardless of the cost.

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Capital expenditure, CloudComputing, converged infrastructure, cost | 1 Response

Is agility and focus worth a price premium – on converged infrastructure costing more…

Is agility and focus worth a price premium – on converged infrastructure costing more…

By Ben Kepes on January 19, 2012

  Krish wrote a post covering a report which showed that the costs involved in utilizing converged infrastructure (ie a consistent approach towards hardware and software that sees everything in a data center fit together like lego) runs to some 15% more expensive than when using a more “Do It Yourself” approach. The topic of […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Capital expenditure, CloudComputing, converged infrastructure | 1 Response

Cloupia Gets Flexpod Validation As They Push Hard Into Converged Infrastructure Space

Cloupia Gets Flexpod Validation As They Push Hard Into Converged Infrastructure Space

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 11, 2012

Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based startup offering automation and orchestration solutions, today announced that their FlexPod Management and Automation solution is validated by Cisco and NetApp. This is a big boost for the startup taking a different route compared to the other cloud management players. Unlike companies like Rightscale which are solely […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cisco, cloud management, cloupia, converged infrastructure, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, insights, netapp

Will You Pay 15% More For Converged Infrastructure?

Will You Pay 15% More For Converged Infrastructure?

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 20, 2011

As tech media goes in an overdrive highlighting the game changing nature of cloud computing, enterprises are embracing converged infrastructure at an increasing rate. Some predictions that came out at the end of 2010 claimed that 30% of the data centers will use converged infrastructure in the next 2-3 years. I am not sure how […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cisco, ciscoucs, converged infrastructure, infrastructure, ucs | 7 Responses

BMC Updates Its Workload Automation Tool

BMC Updates Its Workload Automation Tool

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 30, 2011

BMC, one of the leading Business Service Management Software companies, today announced significant update to their workload automation tool, Control-M. Control-M is BMC’s solution to help enterprise automate their workloads, instead of a more traditional scheduling, across mainframes, distributed, virtual, hybrid and cloud environments. Control-M is pushed as a one stop solution that eliminates the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged automation, bmc, briefs, converged infrastructure, ctrl-m, infrastructure, workload automation

Egenera Touts Choice In Converged Infrastructure

Egenera Touts Choice In Converged Infrastructure

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 9, 2011

When it comes to datacenter operations, there is always this debate on converged infrastructure: Should one buy readymade converged infrastructure offered by hardware vendors or use software for convergence. The former option implied vendor lock-in and the latter meant that that the converged infrastructure may be less optimal. Like many other debates in the industry, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, converged infrastructure, datacenter, egenera, hp, paM Manager, unified computing

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