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5 reasons to get excited about next-gen HCI
The uptake of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) over the last decade has been strong, for good reasons: the technology is simple to manage and makes it easier to administer virtual desktops, apps and data. Businesses enjoy being able to scale infrastructure performance and storage capacity easily, by just slotting in a new node.
What is HCI?
HCI combines multiple resourcesโstorage, compute, networking & virtualizationโin a single appliance. These flexible building blocks replace legacy infrastructure consisting of separate servers, networks and storage arrays.
However, while HCI is suited to virtual desktops and less critical workloads with predictable needs, behind its breakthrough ease-of-use lie architectural limitations that by design canโt support business-critical apps and mixed workloads without adding business risk. It forces a trade-off between performance and simplicity, leading to system lags and even crashes. Businesses find themselves balancing performance, availability and cost on a tightrope of uncertainty.
There is a need for a new solution that delivers the HCI experience of unified management and VM-centric operations with higher availability, faster performance and flexible scaling. The good news is that HPE HCI 2.0 is that solution. Itโs more powerful, more cost effective, and fixes bad performance. Itโs HCI without boundaries.
Whatโs the excitement about?
HCI 2.0 from HPE is an intelligent platform that disaggregates compute and storage, and integrates hyperconverged control for simple management on a flexible architecture. Powered with HPE InfoSight, it gives enterprises ultimate simplicity for their virtualized environments with fast app performance, always-on data resilience, and resource efficiency โ whilst at the same time radically reducing business risk.
1. No more trade-offs
HPE HCI 2.0 scales compute and storage independently, so no resources are wasted. You donโt have to buy both when you only need one but, more importantly, you can scale your needs to ensure that your system never buckles under pressure and business continuity is ensured.
2. Intelligently simple
HCI 2.0 removes complexity in IT operations and provides greater stability. Predictive support automation and problem prevention mean no more time-wasting on mundane, routine tasks and firefighting. Problem-solving is left to InfoSightโs predictive analytics and expert support services. Itโs simple to deploy: Configuration is automated, completed in 15 minutes1, not hours or days and VM-centric data services and resource management make it simple to manage.
3. Absolutely resilient
HPE HCI 2.0 offers 99.9999% storage availability2 with no single point of failure. It has the ability to tolerate three simultaneous drive failures whilst enabling faster and more frequent backups with application-consistent snapshots and advanced replication.
4. Improves total cost of ownership
Time and skills can be used more efficiently with automated processes and predictive problem solving. HPE HCI 2.0 also drives better total cost of ownership with no overprovisioning thanks to independent scaling of storage and compute resources and industry-leading data efficiency.
5. Built-in intelligence
HCI 2.0 is intelligent and monitors your infrastructure. By leveraging AI Ops, HCI 2.0 predictively and proactively fixes issues before they become problems. HPE InfoSight optimises everything through a single management experience, and makes customised recommendations using machine learning to help you optimise resources like never before.
You'll get a transformed support experience too
- Predictive analytics automates and resolve typical level 1 and 2 issues.
- One-call support through to a level 3 engineer with full-stack expertise and an average hold time of under a minute, and 4.91 out of 5 customer support satisfaction.3
- We call you so you never have to worry about whom to call.
Learn more here: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/solutions/hyperconverged-infrastructure-2.html
Nick Dyer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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