Cross-functional analytics for increased profitability. How CSPs can make the most of their network data

Data centers are an essential part of the modern economy. From banking to telecoms to gaming, data centers are vital for most industries. But there’s a problem. For a data center to make sense, it must be continuously improved in terms of economics, performance, efficiency, and flexibility. As the world becomes increasingly reliant on a digital economy, data centers must innovate to meet the needs of tomorrow.

The pandemic may be receding, but emergent situations like fires, hurricanes, and other events disruptive to business continue to arise frequently. The impact on business is significant, and it all amps up the need for organizations to be agile in a data-driven manner. Meanwhile, the data and analytics world has many segments, islands of functionality, areas of innovation, and ecosystems within ecosystems. That makes data technology-rich, but it can also slow down data-driven progress. To fix this, we must take an end-to-end approach to analytics.

DevOps teams rely on tools that enable automation for building seamless infrastructure as code best practices across their on-premises and in-cloud deployments. Understanding what is available for integrating the best practices of IT strategy is key to bolstering your cloud native deployments. Learn how to reduce risks and increase productivity with common container orchestration platforms through APIs and Plug-ins.

What’s in a name? In NVMe-OF’s case, quite a lot. What’s that, you say, apart from being a front-runner for technology’s worst acronym awards? Data centre transformation, is that better? No, of course it isn’t and with good reason. Infrastructure vendors have been telling us how important it is to refresh our data centre infrastructures for some time, as otherwise you won’t be able to reap the rewards of, you know the sort of thing, massively scalable analytics workloads, application consolidation, more dynamic infrastructure, greater business value and so on. Trouble is, for a wealth of reasons, few enterprises have the luxury of rip-and-replace transformation. And while processing and storage have moved forward at the speed of Moore’s Law, the pesky network has continued to slow everything else down. So, here’s the good news. The NVMe-OF protocol has emerged from the direct attached storage world as a way of connecting solid-state storage to processing at, well, the speed of light (OF stands for Over Fabric), essentially removing the bottleneck of data transfers.