3 Reasons to beware the hype around hyperconverged

It seems as if every few years there’s a new infrastructure approach that promises to revolutionize the enterprise data center. You probably know from experience that many of these trends don’t live up to the initial hype and some even end up taking your operations in the wrong direction. So it is with conventional hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) today.

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