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Another selling point of bare-metal cloud providers: local service

Several things make bare-metal cloud providers appealing compared with traditional cloud providers, which operate in a virtualized environment. Bare-metal providers give users more control, more access to hardware, more performance, and the ability to pick their own operating environment.There's another interesting angle, as articulated by Martin Blythe, a research fellow with Gartner. He maintains that bare-metal providers appeal to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) because those companies are often small, local players, and SMBs looking for something more economical than hosting their own data center often want to keep the data center nearby.To read this article in full, please click here

Another selling point of bare-metal cloud providers: local service

Several things make bare-metal cloud providers appealing compared with traditional cloud providers, which operate in a virtualized environment. Bare-metal providers give users more control, more access to hardware, more performance, and the ability to pick their own operating environment.There's another interesting angle, as articulated by Martin Blythe, a research fellow with Gartner. He maintains that bare-metal providers appeal to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) because those companies are often small, local players, and SMBs looking for something more economical than hosting their own data center often want to keep the data center nearby.To read this article in full, please click here

Hyperconverged infrastructure gets its own Gartner magic quadrant

Hyperconvergence is winning over enterprises that are drawn to its potential to ease management, streamline the deployment of new workloads, and optimize infrastructure costs.As much as 20 percent of business-critical applications currently deployed on three-tier IT infrastructure will transition to hyperconverged infrastructure by 2020, predicts Gartner, which recently gave the technology its own magic quadrant.[ Check out our What is hyperconvergence? and learn whether your network and team are up to hyperconverged storage. ] The magic quadrant is Gartner’s signature format for tech market analysis, and in prior years, the research firm tackled hyperconvergence as part of its integrated-systems research.To read this article in full, please click here

Hyperconverged infrastructure gets its own Gartner magic quadrant

Hyperconvergence is winning over enterprises that are drawn to its potential to ease management, streamline the deployment of new workloads, and optimize infrastructure costs.As much as 20 percent of business-critical applications currently deployed on three-tier IT infrastructure will transition to hyperconverged infrastructure by 2020, predicts Gartner, which recently gave the technology its own magic quadrant.[ Check out our What is hyperconvergence? and learn whether your network and team are up to hyperconverged storage. ] The magic quadrant is Gartner’s signature format for tech market analysis, and in prior years, the research firm tackled hyperconvergence as part of its integrated-systems research.To read this article in full, please click here

Video: Automated Data Center Fabric Deployment Demo

I was focused on network automation this week, starting with a 2-day workshop and continuing with an overview of real-life automation wins. Let’s end the week with another automation story: automated data center fabric deployment demonstrated by Dinesh Dutt during his part of Network Automation Use Cases webinar.

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ISOC’s Hot Topics at IETF 101

Tomorrow begins IETF 101 in London, United Kingdom, and it’s the third time that an IETF has been held in the country. Following on the heels of our Rough Guide to IETF 101 where we go in-depth about specific topics of interest, the ISOC Internet Technology Team is again highlighting the latest IPv6, DNSSEC, Securing BGP, TLS and IoT related developments as the week progresses.

Below are the sessions that we’ll be following in the coming week. Note this post was written in advance so please check the official IETF 101 agenda for any updates, room changes, or final details.

Monday, 18 March 2018

Tuesday, 19 March 2018

Building vs. buying your engineering staff

Should I build it or buy it? It’s an age old question often used in reference to furniture, websites and risky home remodeling projects (DIY is fun, I swear!). Same goes for your engineering team — should I hire and build out an engineering staff or should I outsource an engineering team?

According to a 2016 study done by Deloitte, 72% of organizations with over $1 billion in revenue are outsourcing their IT functions. However, only 31% of them plan to increase this spending in the following year. Could this allude to investments for inhouse staff? Maybe. In the following paragraphs, we will discuss the pros and cons of creating an inhouse vs. outsourcing engineering staff.

Building vs. buying engineering — two methods

Let’s start with some simple definitions.

Building an engineering team: We’re talking about hiring people. When I say building, I mean recruiting talent, hiring them full time, offering benefits and keeping them engaged with exciting projects. I also mean hiring experts in the field who are lifelong learners and are excited about innovation. In time, they give back to the company through their developed expertise, loyalty and institutional knowledge. Those are your people.

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