Goodbye, Silos: The Benefits of Converged Data Centers

Kent Christensen brings more than 20 years of experience in IT management and software engineering to his role as virtualization practice manager for Datalink, where he consults with customers on initiatives spanning storage consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing. You can read his latest blog here.

IT silos tend to get a bad rap in the data center these days. In an age of ever-increasing consolidation of physical devices (servers, storage, and networks) into one big family of shared resources, the legacy of IT silos is viewed more and more as one of great inefficiency, and as an example of how not to do things.