Converged, Hyper-Converged, Hypervisor-Converged

Good Post by Chuck Hollis (thank you)

Complexity is the perpetual bane of enterprise IT groups everywhere.

The individual infrastructure components are straightforward enough when considered individually; getting everything to interoperate smoothly is far more burdensome.

As hardware prices fall — and IT capacity balloons — the focus has clearly shifted to improved operational efficiency: doing more/faster/better but without adding more people.   “Simple” is the new killer app in enterprise IT infrastructure.

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Software-Define alternative to Hyper-Convergence

Good Post by Keith Townsend (thank you)

Convergence is aiming to change the data center with the promise of simplifying overall IT operations. We’ve seen tightly engineered solutions from VMware, Cisco and EMC in the form of vBlocks from VCE. More recently we’ve seen hyper-converged systems from the likes of Scale Computing and Nutanix. The appeal of these systems from a CIO perspective is the reduction of operating expenses related to the virtualization and storage administrator roles.

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