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  Almost a year from now one of the leading research firm mentioned OpenStack to be a “science project”. Right now it is expected that OpenStack Revenue will cross $3.3 Billion by 2018. A research done by one of the leading IT organization shows that 88% of enterprises either have or expect to adopt DevOps, compared to 66% in a similar survey taken last year. We have witnessed a definite surge in the adoption rate of DevOps . So what are the key driving forces for this mass adoption? The answer is very simple – DevOps is providing benefits. Based on my reading and interaction with number of industry leaders I can list down a few of them: It ensures faster time to market, hence improves ROI. It paves the way for better collaboration between teams. Stable/reliable operating environments. Early detection and faster correction of defects to ensure customer satisfaction. Continuous Release and Deployment, Testing, and Monitoring. Time to focus – thus improving quality. Bu...

Change is inevitable and so is applicable to datacenters. Trends show that datacenters are adopting new changes as many disruptive technology vendors embark into the datacenter business. Players ranging from flash storage to software defined storage, viz., Pure Storage, Nimble, Nutanix, Simplivity, etc., are all boarding this technology. Storage technologies have shown great prominence in adopting new methods of data reduction, data protection, encryption, virtualization to cater business needs. However, the last few years have witnessed storage evolving in a new form factors known as hyper-converged infrastructures that is a whole new definition of Software Defined Storage (SDS) . Hyper-convergence is translating a bunch of technological silos in traditional storage into meaningful adoption wherein the customers choose one stop solution over traditional storage vendor. What is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure? According to Wikipedia, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is a software defined...