What Comes after CI and HCI? – Composable Infrastructures

By Eric Slack, Monday, February 19th 2018

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There’s an evolution occurring in IT infrastructure that’s providing alternatives to the traditional server-, storage- and SAN-based systems enterprises have used for the past two decades or so. This evolution was first defined by “hyperscalers”, the big public cloud and social...

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HCI – What Happened in 2017 and What to Watch for in 2018

By Eric Slack, Sunday, January 14th 2018

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The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) segment continued to grow throughout 2017. Evaluator Group research in this area expanded in 2017 as well, adding products from NetApp, Lenovo and IBM. In this blog we’ll review some of the developments that occurred in 2017...

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How does Hyperconverged Fit in the Enterprise? — findings from Evaluator Group Research

By Eric Slack, Thursday, November 30th 2017

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Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCIs) have enjoyed significant success over the past several years, based partly on their ability to reduce the effort and shorten the timeframe required to deploy new infrastructures. HCI’s early success came largely in small and mid-sized companies,...

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Enterprise Vendors Expanding in the HCI Market

By Eric Slack, Tuesday, October 10th 2017

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The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) market has been shifting towards the larger, established storage and server vendors for the past year or more. HPE bought SimpliVity earlier in 2017, Cisco is expanding its presence, and IBM and NetApp are coming out...

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Evaluating a Hyperconverged Solution – Management and Advanced Features

By Eric Slack, Thursday, April 27th 2017

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Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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How to Choose a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution – Product Maturity and Company Stability – by Eric Slack

By Evaluator Group, Wednesday, March 1st 2017

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Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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How to Choose a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution – Data Protection, Business Continuity and Management – by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, February 13th 2017

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Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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How to Choose a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solution – Cost and Performance – by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, January 23rd 2017

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Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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“More’s” Law in Hyperconverged Infrastructures – by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, November 28th 2016

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) appliance vendors seem to be in a race to come out with the most features, a practice enabled by the software-defined storage (SDS) technology that’s at the foundation of these products. This trend is giving rise to...

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The 800-pound Gorilla in Hyperconverged – Eric Slack

By Evaluator Group, Monday, September 12th 2016

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At VMworld a couple weeks ago, Chad Sakac, President of VCE, DellEMC’s Converged Platform Division, made it clear that Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions are a big part of the company’s plans moving forward. They’ve also had some early success. VxRail (which...

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