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Publication Date: 2026-02-18 16:00:00
Sponsored Feature For years enterprise tech teams have increasingly yearned for the flexibility to assign specific IT resources ‘as-needed’. This longing has grown as the workloads crowding into datacenters have become so varied, and the need to meet architectural needs (hybrid environments, edge, modernization) so critical.
Techies are weary of being tied to architectures designed to trade-off between performance, capacity and cost. Really, they’d like to decouple compute, networking and storage into self-determining, modular pools – pools connected by uniform high-speed connectivity, rather than aging transport protocols.
Such an approach would disaggregate IT tiers and enable independent scaling of capacity and performance. It also promises to improve resource usage and boost flexibility for today’s varied datacenter workloads, virtualized or otherwise. And, tech teams argue, by eliminating overprovisioning and retaining existing hardware assets, these disaggregated architectures could also lower costs.
Flexibility is key for technology teams
Flexibility tops this wish list. Historically, IT has been customarily specified to be ahead of the business requirement. Workloads were expected to adapt to the capabilities of installed technology, and not vice versa.
The 2020s, however, have seen the emergence of a form of IT singularity. Business demands on technology are outpacing traditional IT refresh cycles and change readiness. The business now sets the pace of…
