Hyper-converged infrastructure is well and truly mainstream. 451 Research finds hyper-converged all set to become the number one platform for core datacentre workloads.
In January 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced it would pay $650m cash for seven-year-old startup Simplivity.
The move has dispelled any lingering doubts over the potential for hyper-converged infrastructure to radically reshape the way organisations buy and deploy the platforms that run their IT operations.
The acquisition is the latest development in a rapidly evolving market that is becoming very real, in which large numbers of organisations have begun to deploy a range of software-defined and hyper-converged infrastructure capabilities to run an expanding range of traditional and emerging IT workloads.
Hyper-converged is also now becoming a core weapon in the armoury of suppliers looking to demonstrate to customers that they can meaningfully change the fundamental economics of running core and edge IT infrastructure
This is not only a linchpin of any IT transformation strategy, but absolutely essential for any supplier that wants to demonstrate ongoing relevance in the era of public cloud .
HPE’s acquisition of Simplivity should further validate a market that until recently was mostly defined by a single startup specialist: Nutanix .
