{"id":5186,"date":"2022-01-06T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:01:11","slug":"composability-versus-virtualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/composability-versus-virtualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Center Strategy: Composability vs. Virtualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on continually changing business and IT needs, composable infrastructure is emerging<\/a> as a category of infrastructure aimed at optimizing an organization’s IT resources to improve business agility and responsiveness.<\/p>\n

Composable infrastructure is the ability to connect compute, GPU, storage and networking into pools of resources<\/em>\u00a0that are provisioned through software APIs<\/em> and network fabric, then deployed into bare-metal server nodes. <\/em>In composable infrastructure environments, hardware resources can be composed into exact-sized system designs (including bare-metal) for each private cloud hosted application’s workload needs. This infrastructure architecture approach is similar to a public cloud where resource capacity is requested and provisioned from shared capacity \u2013 except composable infrastructure sits behind a corporate firewall on-premises in an organization’s data center.<\/p>\n

This focus on provisioning hardware into available compute, storage and networking resources, reduces underutilization and overprovisioning while creating a more flexible and agile data center. The approach of composability is similar to a public cloud in that hardware resources are requested and provisioned from shared capacity \u2013 except a software-defined composable infrastructure sits on-premises in an organization’s data center.<\/p>\n

Previously, we covered what is composable infrastructure<\/a> and how organizations can benefit from composability.<\/strong> Next, let’s review how this approach is different from deploying virtualized data center environments.<\/p>\n

Choosing between software-defined architectures? Here’s what data center administrators need to know to compare composable infrastructure vs. virtualization or container-based infrastructure. Questions? Drop us an email at sales@www.pogolinux.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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