According to IDC’s (International Data Corporation) Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker for the second 2019 quarter. IDC tracks three kinds of systems; Certified reference systems and integrated infrastructure (such as Dell…
By Cobus Smit - 5 Jan 2020 Review of vSAN A brief review of vSAN is that it uses internal disks from the ESXi Hosts to setup storage as a software-defined…
https://www.datrium.com/solutions/ Above is just the official Datrium link to their HCI solutions. More articles will follow regarding Datrium in the future.
https://pivot3.com/solution/datacenter-modernization/ Above is just the official Pivot3 link to their HCI solution. More articles will follow regarding Pivot3 in the future.
HPE SimpliVity or Nutanix What will I choose? This is just a brief review of HPE SimpliVity and comparing it to Nutanix. With that in mind, we can add that HPE…
Huawei Fusion servers are now officially certified for Nutanix’s HCI solutions because of a new partnership. Huawei's Hardware The Huawei – Nutanix HCI solution is built on FusionServer 2288H V5: The…
Let's look a bit at the differences between VxRail, XC Series, VxBlock and VxFlex. What is VxRAIL VxRail is an HCI appliance from Dell EMC’s CI organization. Formerly known as VCE,…
Cobus Smit - Updated 10 Feb 2020 Huawei FusionCube Info Huawei FusionCube -Huawei FusionCube solution claims to be "Any Workload, One System" Let's have a look at their HCI offerings. Huawei…
By Cobus Smit - 15 Jan 2020 What is Cisco’s Hyperflex HCI solution all about, and why has it gained so much attention since 2016? Background on Cisco Hyperflex HyperFlex has…
Fujitsu is enabling SAP HANA on HCI on Nutanix on PRIMERGY to get better management, higher performance and increased scalability across both private and hybrid clouds. Fujitsu is using the Nutanix-based…
The HPE-Nutanix Partnership with GreenLake aims at Dell EMC and VMware’s market-share in servers and hyper-converged infrastructure. Where the partnership is looking at expanding its share of the HCI pie. Offering…
Microsoft HCI Microsoft uses Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) applications, while at the same time benefiting from public cloud services, in this case, Azure. For this, the tech giant has now launched Azure…
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/hci/ Above is just the official Microsoft link to their HCI solution. More articles will follow regarding Microsoft Azure in the future.
By Cobus Smit - 13 Sept 2019 Companies use different hypervisors to run some kind of virtulization on hyper converged. This is part to get the footprint smaller and make management…
By Cobus Smit - 28 Aug 2019 Dell EMC announced consumption-based pricing for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxRail at Dell Technologies World in May, saying it would be available in…