Less Bolts, More Software - HCI

A hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) approach to modern data centers means less bolts and more software. You can reduce racks and stacks of hardware into dense appliances that are also racked and stacked like pizza boxes but take up a lot less room and save on 100s to 1000s of square feet of space in a data center depending on the IT capacity needed to run a business. All the overhead of running wires and managing cooling systems and even the manual toolsets to install and maintain everything reduces with HCI.

What's the trade-off? Lines and lines of logic embedded in software defined virtual infrastructure. The code defines the computing elements and digital "smartness" determines what happens every step of the way. For example, if someone needs a virtual machine that runs a database with a certain amount of compute power and memory, a management interface where you set the requirements sends them to one of the pizza boxes to "spin up" your resource.

This is quite an oversimplification but imagine extending the concept of logic to define every single digital activity required to run a data center and you have a software-defined data center (SDDC). Not all vendors do it the same, that is, the HCI in a pizza box but we do it the best at Nutanix with leadership positions in both Gartner's Magic Quadrant for HCI and The Forrester Wave for HCI. We also have the highest net promoter score (NPS) in the industry.

My experience and articles are based on tech marketing in the B2B industry at CloudBolt and now Nutanix. They do not necessarily represent CloudBolt or Nutanix position, strategies, or opinion.

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