Private Clouds Come Down To Earth

InformationWeek: Plenty of CIOs like the idea of a converged data center but get headaches thinking about the complexity. Even given wide support for open standards, stitching discrete server and storage systems into a software-abstracted cloud is not for the faint of heart. Enter preassembled private cloud stacks, such as Dell's PowerEdge C-series, Hewlett-Packard's ProLiant SL Scalable Systems, and IBM's NeXtScale System. VMware, Nutanix, and a slew of specialized vendors are also in this hunt. These systems can cost-effectively deliver scale-out cloud functionality, high density, and manageability without significant compromise on features.

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