HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) continues to gain significant traction and is increasingly being adopted by enterprise data centers. Experts believe the HCI market will surpass $30 billion by 2027, climbing from about $7 billion in 2020.

HCI offers numerous benefits beyond a traditional infrastructure platform. We will discuss some of the current advantages offered by its implementation. Hyperconverged infrastructure may be a great option for many organizations, and we will also cover how to select the proper HCI solutions.

HCI Basics

Computing, networking, and storage are the main components of data center infrastructure. In the past, they have been considered to be separate units. Hyperconverged infrastructure gathers these three components of server platforms and combines them into nodes. The computing, networking, and storage functions are then inside one physical unit, where they can be managed as a single unified group of resources.

HCI solutions offer the following benefits over traditional deployments:

• Greater simplicity in configuring, managing, and provisioning HCI than standard deployments
• Easy scalability because of predictability and computing and storage resources are balanced automatically
• Management unified – HCI may be managed as a single solution rather than separate components composed of computing, networking, and storage
• Automation that is policy-based minimizes silos and manual processes

HCI Advantages

Hyperconverged infrastructure implementation results in numerous benefits in the data center, edge, ROBO (remote office/branch office), and other locations as reviewed below.

Flexibility: Applicable for numerous use cases, HCI can serve a great variety of workloads with great proficiency. Thus, it is capable of satisfying an organization’s various requirements.

Scalability: HCI solutions provide an efficient approach for scaling. Many vendors are now offering preconfigured HCI nodes, and so scaling has never been easier. HCI solutions that have been preconfigured eliminate extended maintenance periods for integrating a new host, networking, or storage.

Part 2 will continue discussing hyperconverged infrastructure advantages.

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