Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is becoming a pivotal architecture
for organisations of all sizes due to the simplicity, ease of management, and
cost savings that it offers over traditional data centre architectures. Among
the biggest benefits that HCI brings include agility, scalability, more
efficient resource consumption and since it is software-defined, it can be
managed centrally by a single piece of software.
In the age of the cloud, businesses are struggling to
connect legacy systems with cloud applications. That, and because of the
aforementioned benefits, HCI has emerged as a key enabler for cloud adoption,
providing a quick and simple way for organisations to connect to public and
private clouds while offering its own cloud-like properties. It allows
organisations to manage complex IT infrastructures seamlessly by delivering
storage, compute, network, virtualisation and data protection in an easy to
manage but scalable application.