Video surveillance is an interesting vertical as it has a lot of seemingly contradictory requirements. On the one hand, it must have a high level of availability and be secure, reliable, and able to process different video streams efficiently in real time. On the other hand, it needs to be able to run in locations

In a recent article, we looked at one of the more interesting technologies currently being deployed in the datacenter: disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI). In particular, we looked at HPE’s implementation of dHCI as they are a leader in this technology. As a recap, dHCI is similar to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in the sense that it

The deployment and ongoing management of computing resources in small offices and remote/branch office (ROBO) environments have always been problematic, with many different and competing factors at play. Many enterprises, as well as small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), depend on ROBO HCI systems to handle the day-to-day business-critical transactions that are the lifeblood of these

We in the IT community often obsess over show horses—the fastest and/or most powerful devices or systems—because we love those big and small numbers they showcase. The reality, however, is that most users simply don’t need the ostentatious power of show horses. They need workhorses, systems that can serve up real workloads on a day-to-day

The DataON Kepler-47 G2 is a two-node hyperconverged infrastructure offering designed specifically for small and remote offices. In these cases, there’s a need for enterprise capabilities at an affordable price point. Kepler-47 G2 delivers by leveraging Microsoft Azure Stack HCI on the software side, on top of twin HCI nodes that use Intel server CPUs

We first became acquainted with Diamanti two years ago at KubeCon 2017, and we were impressed with their vision: to provide a bare-metal container platform purpose-built for microservices and cloud-native environments, and optimized for Kubernetes or, basically, a hyperconverged infrastructure appliance for Kubernetes. We saw this as an interesting play and last year at KubeCon

In July, DataCore announced DataCore ONE, the company’s vision for the software-defined storage (SDS) industry. As part of the launch, DataCore released a new turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance. The HCI-Flex appliance merges the flexibility of hyperconverged with the flexibility of SDS into a single appliance that comes pre-installed with either VMware vSphere or Microsoft

Western Digital launched the Ultrastar DC SN630 in February of this year, as part of a refresh and rebranding of their Ultrastar line (formerly HGST) of data center drives. Within this portfolio Western Digital has several enterprise NVMe SSD offerings with the SN200 taking the throne as the performance leader and the new SN630 replaces the SN620 in the mainstream

So far we’ve dived deep into the Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, the on-premise implementation of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Azure Stack HCI can be seen as a best-of-both-worlds type of platform. It has all the management tools from Azure like Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, Azure Update Management, Azure Network Adapter, and Azure Site Recovery,