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The growth of cloud-based networking: What to expect in 2022 and beyond

By upgrading to advanced network infrastructure, firms can deliver mission-critical services through cloud providers and through their own cloud resources. These increased capacity need has seen deployment of optical networking and advanced network solution such as software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). Download our exclusive e-guide and read more about:

  • Appetite rising for network as a service
  • Benu teams with AWS for SASE-based cloud-native networks
  • Babylon Health expands hybrid cloud infrastructure setup to include Google
  • Cisco adds HCI, UCS, software to hybrid cloud infrastructure
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    Hyper-converged infrastructure has taken the datacentre by storm.

    At heart it is the marrying of compute and storage in one box, but with a couple of crucial additions.

    These are the ability to combine multiple nodes into a single cluster, with resources shared in grid-like fashion between them. And, at the same time, that is usually accompanied by a built-in virtualisation hypervisor.

    Those characteristics make hyper-converged infrastructure simple to roll out and manage, and well-suited to use cases that range from SME deployments to multiple-node enterprise implementations.

    In fact, it's almost a case of "We're all hyper-converged now", as the datacentre-in-a-box threatens to eclipse the shared storage array.

    In this e-guide we look at the key hyper-converged vendors and their products, as well as hyper-converged tailored to disaster recovery, backup, cloud functionality, and the software-defined hyper-converged products available.

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    In this 12-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at:

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    • Is hyper-converged infrastructure necessary for your organisation?
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    Latest market research and how hyper-convergence is changing the shape of IT 

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