Cisco has discontinued its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure products.
The IT goliath told The Register today “evolving customer needs and market dynamics” made it rethink its plans for the equipment, which combined a hybrid cloud software stack and Cisco’s own Unified Computing System, or UCS, servers to offer a rival to the likes of VMware and Dell’s vXRail, or Nutanix and HPE’s HCI offerings (HCI being short for hyperconverged infrastructure).
Hyperscalers looming over the market…