Composable Infrastructure

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What Does Composable Infrastructure Mean?

A composable infrastructure is a type of infrastructure that is pieced together conceptually, where individual elements such as compute, storage and network elements are treated as individual services. The composable infrastructure is meant to operate independently of a single hardware platform, and resource pooling helps to provide what individual elements need to perform well. The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) can help companies to create these types of infrastructures.

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Techopedia Explains Composable Infrastructure

Some of the main values of composable infrastructures in enterprise relate to ease of use. A traditional non-composable infrastructure can be rigid or difficult to change. Legacy systems can require a lot of trial and error whenever the business scales up or makes other changes. By contrast, a composable infrastructure is seen as being more transparent and easier to change over time. This is partly because of the loosely connected nature of the infrastructure, and more presented information on how it was originally put together.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.