When it comes to purchasing infrastructure to support virtual and private cloud computing environments, the do-it-yourself (DIY) model is becoming a thing of the past. Instead, the new IT consumption model is moving toward integrated computing platforms (ICPs), which are systems proactively architected for compatibility.
This white paper provides information on organizations preferred model for deploying back-end infrastructure supporting private cloud deployments and an anlysis of Integrated Computing Platforms againstthe DIY method for infrastructure builds.