Hyperconverged Infrastructure: What and Why

The world of enterprise infrastructure technology is evolving quickly. IT teams are expected to support more demanding applications, distributed workloads, hybrid-cloud configurations, cybersecurity needs, and complex infrastructure estates while improving operational efficiency.

Virtualization is still a key component of many enterprise environments, and the server virtualization market is evolving too. Gartner’s Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms calls the market “disruptive” and says infrastructure and operations managers are reevaluating the technologies and vendors used for their existing and future workloads.

This acceleration is driving an increase in demand, particularly for Hyperconverged Infrastructure, as enterprises come to terms with their need to modernise virtualisation, to manage local infrastructure more efficiently, to launch their private cloud projects, and to consider exploring a different virtualization platform from the one they are using today.

What is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure?

Hyperconverged Infrastructure, or HCI, is an architecture that integrates multiple different components such as compute, storage, network virtualization, virtual…