Maturing Hyperconverged Infrastructure Is Running Mission-Critical Workloads in Many Enterprises Today

Maturing Hyperconverged Infrastructure Is Running Mission-Critical Workloads in Many Enterprises Today

This IDC Perspective provides an overview of recent developments in the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market and encourages enterprises to evaluate these types of platforms as their legacy infrastructure comes up for technology refresh. HCI offerings have come a long way in the past two years and host mission-critical workloads at more than half of all enterprises. Their software-defined agility makes them a popular choice for the infrastructure modernization and digital transformation projects that most enterprises are pursuing."Enterprises that still think HCI is limited by an inability to scale compute and storage resources independently, recovery times for device and/or node failures, and node-level performance and capacity limitations should look again," said Eric Burgener, research vice president, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC. "Vendors in this space have come up with new features and approaches that address these concerns, and the best HCI platforms offer a storage management feature set that very closely approximates external storage arrays while differentiating themselves with their flexibility, ease of use, and better economics."

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