Converged infrastructure: is it worth the vendor lock-in?

Daniel Robinson
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The pros of easier deployment and greater scalability need to be weighed up against the potential of vendor lock-in

Converged infrastructure appears to be all the rage these days, to judge by the number of enterprise vendors now offering these carefully crafted systems that integrate compute, storage and network...

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