Senior Manager IT Infrastructure at Trusource Labs
Real User
Feb 20, 2020
I have been in this business for 35 years and I am the network engineering for a global company which is called MRI holdings. I worked for large service providers and when the internet became popular, I worked for a company called Verio that went and bought big regional ISPs. We converted them under one billing system, one engineering structure, and one call center. I noticed that a lot of people — especially some young engineers that I have had working for me — liked the model putting in a server and then creating some LANs and hooking up some storage. It was pretty easy and I was doing that all the way back in 2000. So I wanted to do something that was a little more forward-thinking. That is why I got into the hyper-converged infrastructure which posed some advantages.
HCI integrates compute, storage, and networking into a single system managed with centralized software. This approach simplifies data center operations and increases scalability, providing organizations of varying sizes with significant efficiencies and cost savings.Organizations use HCI to reduce complexity in managing their IT environments. The integration of hardware resources supports on-demand scaling while centralized management software simplifies administrative tasks. This...
I have been in this business for 35 years and I am the network engineering for a global company which is called MRI holdings. I worked for large service providers and when the internet became popular, I worked for a company called Verio that went and bought big regional ISPs. We converted them under one billing system, one engineering structure, and one call center. I noticed that a lot of people — especially some young engineers that I have had working for me — liked the model putting in a server and then creating some LANs and hooking up some storage. It was pretty easy and I was doing that all the way back in 2000. So I wanted to do something that was a little more forward-thinking. That is why I got into the hyper-converged infrastructure which posed some advantages.