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Data Center Upstarts Take On Hewlett-Packard and EMC
Businessweek on data center upstarts (led by Nutanix) taking market share from HP and EMC in 2013 — the hyperconverged infrastructure wave that packaged compute, storage, and networking into software-defined appliances.
VMware VCDX by the Numbers: Nutanix's Rise
Analysis of VMware VCDX (certification) holders by employer in 2013, showing Nutanix ranking third alongside established data center giants like VCE and EMC. Evidence of Nutanix's rapid enterprise credibility in hyper-converged infrastructure.
The Datacenter as a Computer: Warehouse-Scale Machines
High Scalability's coverage of Google's 'The Datacenter as a Computer' second edition — Barroso and Hölzle's canonical text on warehouse-scale machine design. Defined the vocabulary and engineering tradeoffs for operating entire buildings as programmable compute platforms.
A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers
CloudFlare's 2013 tour of their latest server hardware — SSDs, 10GigE NICs, DRAM cache tiers, and non-RAID storage architecture. Ryan's bookmark note compared it favorably to Nutanix's approach to hyper-converged storage.
Nutanix Engineer Explains Why His Appliance Makes Sense for Analytics
SiliconAngle interview with a Nutanix engineer making the case for why hyper-converged infrastructure is well-suited to analytics workloads in 2013. Nutanix was positioning its appliances as a natural home for Hadoop alongside traditional virtualization.
2013: The Year of Converged Infrastructure?
A 2013 enterprise IT blog post declaring it the year of converged infrastructure — pre-packaged stacks combining compute, storage, and networking from a single vendor. A snapshot of when hyper-convergence was becoming mainstream enterprise positioning.
How Intelligent Storage Controllers Have Revolutionized the Industry
DatacenterKnowledge on how intelligent storage controllers — combining flash cache, tiering, and deduplication — changed enterprise storage from dumb arrays into software-defined platforms. A 2013 snapshot of the transition away from spinning-disk-only storage architectures.
Intel Wants to Kill the Traditional Server Rack with 100Gbps Links
Ars Technica on Intel's push to replace copper Ethernet in server racks with 100Gbps silicon photonics links — the argument that data center networking bandwidth was the bottleneck for distributed computing in 2013. Intel's bid to own the rack interconnect layer.
Facebook's Next-Generation Servers
Data Center Knowledge coverage of Facebook's next-generation server hardware in 2012 — part of the Open Compute Project rollout that made hyperscale data center design public and challenged the traditional server vendor model.
Basic Configuration of the Nutanix 2RU Block
An overview of what to expect when deploying a new Nutanix 2U block in 2012 — the physical setup, node configuration, and initial software steps for the hyperconverged appliance that was then challenging traditional SAN/NAS architectures.