Author: Logicalis Staff

Reading Time: 5 minutesA Q&A with Paul Abram, Data Center and Enterprise Compute Practice Leader, and Brett Anderson, Senior Director, HPE Solutions, Logicalis US Just as “cloud” was the IT industry’s favorite buzz word a few short years ago, today’s tech talk is all about “hyperconverged” solutions – and with good reason. The flexibility and automation built into a hyperconverged infrastructure gives users a cloud-like experience inside their own data centers.  But, experts warn, hyperconverged isn’t right for every situation. Until recently, technology solutions consisted of separate servers, storage and networks configured and physically managed on-premise based on a custom design for every client. Then came converged technology which combined servers and storage according to a reference architecture to deliver a pre-built, pre-packaged solution. The next evolution of converged technology is hyperconverged technology – solutions that integrate servers, storage, networking, virtualization, and automation, orchestration and IT services into a single solution. A key distinction between converged and hyperconverged is the addition of built-in software-defined storage. The question is, which solution is best?  To learn more, hear what Logicalis experts Brett Anderson and Paul Abram have to say in this brief Q&A. Q: Which solution is best – a traditional architecture, a converged infrastructure or a hyperconverged solution? BA: They are all right for different scenarios.  It’s not one or the other – it all depends on what the client...