Modernizing IT infrastructure to manage market disruption

As operators prepare to launch 5G services, it is evident that in order to effectively and efficiently deliver the utmost performance, 5G network build-outs need to be based on an architecture which is open, flexible and scalable - across all the network domains. In this webinar, we discuss the following: While it has been established that 5G network cores are to be based on a cloud-native, open-architecture, what about the remaining network domains?

During this session, ACG Research’s Chris Nicoll will share some key insights from the 5G, Edge and IoT infrastructure survey that was conducted with the leading mobile network operators. Key insights from the findings will be discussed and analyzed, including on evolving infrastructure purchasing behavior, the move to cloud-like infrastructures spanning edge-core-cloud as well as workload acceleration, management, orchestration and automation.

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.

It is the right time to have an AI-Ready Compute Infrastructure to leverage AI high performance compute capability without disrupting your present Infrastructure investments. IBM recently announced POWER9 processor – built from the ground-up for data-intensive workloads. It is the only processor with state-of-the-art I/O subsystem technology, including next-generation NVIDIA NVLink, PCIe Gen4, and OpenCAPI.