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Converged Infrastructure
Published in Preston de Guise, Data Protection, 2020
Converged infrastructure is almost invariably aligned to 100% virtualization—that is, typically all of the business-consumable systems provided by a converged infrastructure environment are virtualized hosts. The nature of converged infrastructure also tends to result in reasonably dense virtualized environments in relation to the rack-space occupied by the physical systems. While converged infrastructure does allow for some level of non-virtualized compute resources (“bare metal”), this is the exception rather than the rule. Hyperconverged, on the other hand, will be 100% virtualized.
Converged Infrastructure
Published in Preston de Guise, Data Protection, 2017
Converged infrastructure is almost invariably aligned to 100% virtualization—that is, typically all of the business-consumable systems provided by a converged infrastructure environment are virtualized hosts. The nature of converged infrastructure also tends to result in reasonably dense virtualized environments in relation to the rack-space occupied by the physical systems.
The Future of Broadband Access
Published in Marcus K. Weldon, The Future X Network, 2018
In the coming years the future of broadband will be affected by three dramatic changes in business models and enabling technologies: A new global digital democracy — In the future, users will have access to broadband services anywhere in the world. Service will be offered by global providers independent of region or local access networks. These global service providers will offer the same service package and level of service to any user and enable access from any location — at home, work, or on the move — by leveraging any affiliated local access provider.A new global-local service provider paradigm — In the next access era, global service providers will offer multiple tiers of services by partnering with regional access providers to create a new global-local service provider paradigm. Specific service packages will be built depending on the technological capabilities of the local access provider and related commercial agreements with the global service provider. Local access providers in the same region will compete to offer global service providers with the most compelling hosting and digital delivery infrastructure, which will be comprised of a seamless mix of wireline and wireless connectivity.A new universal access experience — As the new paradigm unfolds, users will become access agnostic. They will expect to be able to move seamlessly between fiber, copper and wireless connections. This will require operators to shift resources dynamically between different access technologies. Therefore, the virtualization of network functions in the edge cloud will be an important enabler of this flexible, converged infrastructure. Additional flexibility will come from the installation of universal remote nodes that can be reconfigured to support any combination of access technologies at any time.
Human–robot interaction in industrial collaborative robotics: a literature review of the decade 2008–2017
Published in Advanced Robotics, 2019
Abdelfetah Hentout, Mustapha Aouache, Abderraouf Maoudj, Isma Akli
Cloud/fog robotics is defined as an emerging field of robotics rooted in cloud/fog computing, cloud/fog storage, and other internet technologies centered around the benefits of converged infrastructure and shared services (powerful computational, storage and communications resources of modern data centers, etc.) [89,90].