What is the Best Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution for You?

Last week I had a speech at a small workshop in Italy around hyper-convergence. It was a group of more than 20 end users, mid-to-large sized companies that were evaluating if hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) makes sense for their projects. In fact, only a few of them are already utilizing hyper-convergence, and some have special use cases for which solutions they have evaluated so far are too expensive or not flexible enough for their needs. Edge computing, for example, is pretty challenging for most HCI solutions. That was an interesting discussion and I’m trying to take advantage of it for the slide deck I’m preparing for a webinar I’ll host next week here on GigaOm: “Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: Maximizing TCO and ROI” I’m focusing the presentation on a few aspects that I consider fundamental to choose the right HCI solution: One-size-fits-all does not exist when it comes to IT infrastructures. It is important to understand your real needs and proceed accordingly.
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