Computerworld UK
March 31, 2017 • Blog Post
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Computerworld UK speaks to David Chalmers, HPE's vice president and chief technologist, EG EMEA
Data centre infrastructure has evolved quickly in recent years, with converged and more recently hyperconverged systems offering greater control through a software layer.
The latest step in this evolution towards a fully 'software-defined' data centre is composable infrastructure.
The idea behind composable systems is that hardware components compute, storage and networking are managed entirely via software commands. Pools of resources are created and assigned automatically to meet the demands of individual applications in near real-time.