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Get answers to some HPE SimpliVity HCI FAQs
When HPE bought SimpliVity in 2017, it raised questions about the two company's HCI products, even though they were existing partners. We answer some of those questions.
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What you need to know before buying hyper-converged technology
Learn how to determine your organization's need for hyper-converged infrastructure and to evaluate offerings from top HCI vendors to find the right fit.
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OCI vs. composable infrastructure: Find what's best
OCI and composable infrastructure are both touted as the latest in convergence, but it is important to know how they differ before making an IT buying decision.
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Users increasingly pick HCI for just one job
Customers of HCI are increasingly assigning it just one job in the IT environment, picking the role its scalability and management ease is best suited for.
Download: Is the lure of HCI really worth the bite?
Hyper-converged technologies have been relentlessly dangled in front of IT departments like a lure—but how do you know if your team should bite? Beyond just VDI, this guide delves in-depth into HCI use cases, illustrating which workloads HCI best suits, which workloads to avoid, emerging use cases like backup and DR, and more.
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Set secondary storage based on application needs
Using secondary storage can improve the performance of mission-critical applications, but deciding what data is secondary in importance isn't as easy as it seems.
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HCI Implementation News
Texas city streamlines IT around VxRail clusters
Hyper-convergence cut costs, streamlined operations and set up Amarillo to use the cloud for storage tiers, while shifting resources away from managing infrastructure.
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Questions about Pivot3 hyper-convergence answered
Where did Pivot3 first target its hyper-converged storage systems, and where is it focused today? Find out answers to these and other frequently asked questions.
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Tricks for getting more out of vSAN, HCI
Users provide tips on going from three tiers to tears-free hyper-convergence using VMware vSAN software or other HCI architectures proliferating in the data center and beyond.
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Nutanix expands past HCI with Flow, Beam and Era
With the introduction of Flow, Beam and Era, Nutanix has made a clear statement that it's aiming for a comprehensive Nutanix enterprise cloud OS.
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HCI, servers bring individual benefits to data centers
HCI clusters and rack servers both offer benefits for a data center rollout. Still, figuring out which is easier to set up requires evaluation and planning.
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Get answers to some HPE SimpliVity HCI FAQs
When HPE bought SimpliVity in 2017, it raised questions about the two company's HCI products, even though they were existing partners. We answer some of those questions.
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What you need to know before buying hyper-converged technology
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OCI vs. composable infrastructure: Find what's best
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Users increasingly pick HCI for just one job
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Your top hyper-converged storage questions answered
There is a lot of information out there on hyper-converged storage, and it can be difficult to get down to basics. Here are five common questions about hyper-convergence, answered.
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Some assembly required? Buy or DIY hyper-convergence
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HCI addresses VDI performance issues
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Four problems hyper-convergence can solve
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Assessing hypervisor support in HCI
Hypervisor support in hyper-converged infrastructure has evolved over time. Find out how as we assess the past and current place of individual hypervisors in these architectures.
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Composable systems hinge on flexibility with hardware
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Storage administrator plays an important business role
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Planning your hyper-converged systems aids a VDI launch
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E-Handbook | July 2018
How hyper-converged secondary storage fits in the HCI world
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E-Handbook | April 2018
Hyper-converged IT options should match your workload needs
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E-Handbook | October 2017
VDI values hyper-converged infrastructure benefits
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E-Handbook | July 2017
How to build your own hyper-converged computing platform
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E-Handbook | May 2017
Making the case for converged and hyper-converged infrastructure
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Defining hyper-convergence isn't always easy
Defining hyper-convergence can be a challenge. Focus instead on learning about hyper-converged infrastructure product options and how they fit your data center and cloud plans.
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hyperconvergence
Hyperconvergence -- also spelled hyper-convergence -- is a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage and virtualization resources in a single system that usually consists of x86 hardware.
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FlexPod
NetApp FlexPod is a reference architecture for server, storage and networking components that are pretested and validated to work together as an integrated infrastructure stack.
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Texas city streamlines IT around VxRail clusters
Hyper-convergence cut costs, streamlined operations and set up Amarillo to use the cloud for storage tiers, while shifting resources away from managing infrastructure.
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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems
Dell EMC to launch VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail
Dell EMC builds on VMware Cloud Foundation and plans to offer a new two-node VxRail entry point, with a flexible VMware vSAN license. Dell EMC also adds VMware integration to VxBlock.
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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems
NetApp: HCI stands for hybrid cloud infrastructure
Late to HCI, NetApp tries to play catch up against Dell EMC, VMware and Nutanix by pushing its SolidFire flash-based product into hybrid cloud deployments.