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This article is part of the August 2013 / Vol. 4 / No. 4 issue of Harvesting business intelligence with network monitoring tools
Whether you refer to the new data center as the software-defined data center (SDDC), the cloud, or just plain old virtualization, it all amounts to the same thing: agile provisioning of converged storage, compute and network resources. For that to occur, the siloes among storage, networking and systems teams must come down. And as this transformation in the IT organization occurs, so too will the engineer’s job description. We’ll see the rise of a new IT position—the virtualization engineer. The term “virtualization engineer” once referred to an x86 server administrator who knew how to take a bunch of physical servers and make them virtual machines. But now virtualization engineers typically extend their reach to network and storage virtualization, managing across all three. The change in the engineer’s role is being driven by a new school of IT products based on the tenets of converged infrastructure. Nutanix’ new Virtual Computing Platform is a perfect example of this. Virtual Computing Platform consolidates storage and compute into a single tier and ... Access >>>
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CIOs are laying SDN plans, but slowly
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Can you miss the emerging network technology investment boat?
by Rivka Gewirtz Little
New technologies like SDN and gigabit wireless are exciting, but how do you know when they’re mature enough for a network technology investment?
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The new virtualization engineer: Breaking down siloes in your skills
by Keith Townsend
As siloes break down in the IT organization, there is demand for a new job role—the virtualization engineer, who manages across converged resources.
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Can you miss the emerging network technology investment boat?
by Rivka Gewirtz Little
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