Near and Distant Warning

Near and Distant Warning

I’ve written several times about application nearness, and use the diagram below to highlight the fact that applications simply want to store data and get it back again. In the…
Fan-In Math

Fan-In Math

As VMworld starts this week I'd like to follow up on my last post on SDDC solving fan-out problems. I closed the post by showing the diagram below and asking…
Fanning Back In with SDDC

Fanning Back In with SDDC

In my last two posts I mentioned that application fan-out and infrastructure fan-out result in an M-layer stack with a number of possible choices (a0-aN) within each layer. Creating a…
Infrastructure Fan-Out

Infrastructure Fan-Out

In a previous post I discussed EMC CTO John Roese's use of the phrase application fan-out. His definition describes a common industry trend: a vast array of applications can be placed…
Application Fan-Out

Application Fan-Out

EMC Chief Technology Officer John Roese spoke in Australia recently about a trend that causes some degree of complexity in data center design: application fan-out. This concept is best described…
Application Business Mapping

Application Business Mapping

As I continue learning about Adaptivity's capability to place an application and data on the best-fit infrastructure, I've stumbled upon the diagram below: This diagram shows the five areas of…