The (Second) Coming of Composable Systems
The concept of composable or disaggregated infrastructure is nothing new, but with approaching advances in technology on both the software and network sides (photonics in particular) an old idea might be infused with new life.
Several vendors have already taken a disaggregated architecture approach at the storage, network, and system level. Cisco Systems’ now defunct UCS M Series, for instance, is one example, and one can consider Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s The Machine as one contemporary example and its Project Synergy as two others; DriveScale, which we covered back in May, is possibly another. But thus far, none of …
The (Second) Coming of Composable Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.