최근 미국 Las Vegas에서 개최된
Gartner’s 2014 Data Center Conference에서 Converged system은 하드웨어 보다는 소프트웨어적인 접근이어야 하고 이에 대해서 NUTANIX가 앞서가고 있으며 VMware, Cisco, Simplivity
등이 NUTANIX를 모방하고 있다고 언급하고 있습니다.
아래 기사 내용 참고하시기 바랍니다.
- On the converged
systems side, Cisco has been the poster child, seeing strong success
with its UCS-based converged systems strategy, working with multiple
storage partners including EMC (Vblock), NetApp (FlexPod), Nimble
(SmartStack), and most recently IBM (VersaStack, announced today). Over
the longer term, however, we believe that the key to a good converged
system will depend more on software rather than specific hardware
components and that vendors such as Nutanix that offer flexibility in
server, storage, and hypervisor platform selection; simple-to-use
management software; scalability; and a rich feature set (particularly
for data protection and high-availability) will emerge as architectural
winners. We are already seeing multiple vendors such as Simplivity,
Stratoscale (which Cisco recently invested in), and VMware with its EVO
Rail platform trying to imitate the Nutanix hyperconverged model, albeit
with fewer features and limited scalability and flexibility.
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William
Blair & Company Equity Research
Technology,
Media, and Communications - IT Systems
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Highlights
From Gartner's 2014 Data Center Conference
- Summary: We
attended Gartner's Data Center Summit in Las Vegas, and our primary
observation was that new infrastructure deployment models are emerging
in the data center with two seemingly opposing trends. On the one hand,
converged infrastructure is enjoying strong adoption while the
white-box, open-source, disaggregated, do-it-yourself (DIY) approach is
also gaining steam. A secondary observation is that white-box switching
is maturing and threatening the status quo, although Cisco will not go
down without a fight.
- Converged Versus
DIY: The converged approach to IT infrastructure is best suited for
enterprises that lack in-house IT expertise and are looking for
one-throat-to-choke serviceability, preintegrated and pretuned
appliances, and easy-to-deploy solutions. In the converged approach,
brand trumps best-of-breed components as organizations rely on a single
vendor to integrate all the components in an optimal fashion and shift
focus from individual component management to a system-level, more
holistic management approach. On the other hand, the disaggregated DIY
approach makes sense for the largest players that are focused on price
and have sufficient in-house IT expertise to integrate various
components together, write their own code, and/or adopt open source-based
solutions.
- On the converged
systems side, Cisco has been the poster child, seeing strong success
with its UCS-based converged systems strategy, working with multiple
storage partners including EMC (Vblock), NetApp (FlexPod), Nimble
(SmartStack), and most recently IBM (VersaStack, announced today). Over
the longer term, however, we believe that the key to a good converged
system will depend more on software rather than specific hardware
components and that vendors such as Nutanix that offer flexibility in server,
storage, and hypervisor platform selection; simple-to-use management
software; scalability; and a rich feature set (particularly for data
protection and high-availability) will emerge as architectural winners.
We are already seeing multiple vendors such as Simplivity, Stratoscale
(which Cisco recently invested in), and VMware with its EVO Rail
platform trying to imitate the Nutanix hyperconverged model, albeit with
fewer features and limited scalability and flexibility.
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