Cloud Computing: New Data Center Innovation Stack Could Redefine IT

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Chris Preimesberger.

The words "innovation" and "stack" are now starting to be used together to form a new IT industry term. This IT stack—not particularly new for more progressive IT shops but certainly new for many midrange and smaller enterprises—is defined as such: a heterogeneous infrastructure that combines IT from best-of-breed vendors and/or open-source communities at each layer to deliver a sophisticated architectural model that addresses the full needs of the data center.

Parts of this have been called "converged infrastructure." As virtualized/distributed computing becomes more common, this virtualized stack is making new and existing IT hardware much more efficient and cloud-ready. At the same time, new business requirements, operational challenges and data complexities are rising to new levels, forcing new thought about refreshing older data centers…


As users look to revisit their IT infrastructure to utilize all these cloud-ready benefits, this may be the year that the innovation stack redefines IT entirely. This slide show, using industry perspective from eWEEK reporting and network storage provider NetApp, offers 10 key data points for IT managers to consider as they investigate the deployment of this new model…

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