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The Realities of Hyperconvergence in the Enterprise Datacenter

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) presents an interesting new option for addressing a number of IT production workloads, but there is a substantial amount of hyperbole regarding HCI’s suitability as a replacement for classic datacenter architectures. The goal of this paper is to take a realistic, data-driven and pragmatic look at the issues surrounding the adoption of HCI in the mid to large enterprise, and to provide useful information based on polling data collected from 100 enterprise customers that have evaluated HCI and have either chosen to reject or adopt the platform for their intended use cases.

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The Realities of Hyperconvergence in the Enterprise Datacenter