Next Generation HCI for Dummies

A centralized launching point for all of your current and future needs

Published December 2019

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Once upon a time, datacenters were simply storage rooms for giant, looming mainframes. And while the technologies of today are more streamlined and elegant, the next generation of datacenter tech isn't in hardware—it's invisible infrastructure.

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), an invisible, fully software-defined platform, is a modern solution to yesterday's clunky hardware. But even since its creation a decade ago, HCI has undergone many critical transformations.