Here at the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF), we’ve been discussing how hyperconverged adoption will impact storage. Converged Infrastructure (CI), Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), along with Cluster or Cloud In a Box (CIB) are popular trend topics that have gained both industry and customer adoption. As part of data infrastructures, CI, HCI, and CIB enable simplified deployment of resources (servers, storage, I/O networking, hypervisor, application software) across different environments.
But what do these approaches mean for the storage environment? What are the key concerns and considerations related specifically to storage? How will the storage be connected to (or included in) the platform? Who will protect and backup the data? And most importantly, how do you know that you’re asking the right questions in order to get to the right answers?
Find out on March 15th in a live SNIA-ESF webcast, “What Does Hyperconverged Mean to Storage.” We’ve invited expert Greg Schulz, founder and analyst of Server StorageIO, to answer the questions we’ve been debating. Join us, as Greg will move beyond the hype (pun intended) to discuss:
- What are the storage considerations for CI, CIB and HCI
- Why fast applications and fast servers need fast I/O
- Networking and server-storage I/O considerations
- How to avoid aggravation-causing aggregation (bottlenecks)
- Aggregated vs. disaggregated vs. hybrid converged
- Planning, comparing, benchmarking and decision-making
- Data protection, management and east-west I/O traffic
- Application and server north-south I/O traffic
Register today and please bring your questions. We’ll be on-hand to answer them during this event. We hope to see you there!
Update: If you missed the live event, it’s now available on-demand. You can also download the webcast slides.