At the Microsoft Inspire event, the company announced the next generation of its Azure Stack HCI. This technology stack has been around for a bit, so what it new about it exactly? This version, 20H2, has a new operating system, now in public preview, and Azure HCI can run on hardware that users already have
Dell Technologies has been at the forefront of the growth in hybrid cloud, developing a wide variety of solutions to meet needs from small-edge deployments to large data centers. Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, the #1 selling server in the industry, provide a solid foundation for building hybrid data center solutions and software-defined portfolios. Of course,
The International Data Corporation (IDC) released its Q1 report for 2020 on June 18th. According to the report, VMware leads the Worldwide Hyperconverged Systems Revenue Attributed to Owner of HCI Software rankings with 42% of the first quarter, 2020 market share. VMware is the biggest name in virtualization and has been for so long that
Today Dell Technologies announced new Dell EMC VxRail D Series and Dell EMC VxRAil E Series. Dell is taking an interesting track here releasing both an Intel Xeon Scalable (2nd generation) and an AMD EPYC 7002 version. The Intel is a ruggedized model for harsher, edge environments. And the AMD model marks the introduction of
NetApp has begun offering a new, smaller HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) appliance. Previously, the smallest HCI configuration NetApp supported used six total nodes, making both space and cost a concern for many potential customers. By reducing the minimum number of nodes needed to form a cluster, NetApp hopes to reach new markets. Today’s announcement comes hot
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
This week, VMware announced a new partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): the Integrated HPE vSAN ReadyNodes. This alliance intends to deliver a superior hyperconverged infrastructure customer experience. vSAN is VMware’s software-defined storage product that pools direct-attached storage devices across a VMware vSphere server virtualization cluster. Now, HPE supports, certifies, and offers VMware vSAN ReadyNode
Today, Nutanix deepened their relationship with ServiceNow. Nutanix released an update to their software that improves on their years-long integration with ServiceNow. ServiceNow as founded in 2004 and provides Software-as-a-Service (Saas) to automate application management and event handling, or as they like to call it, “digital workflows.” Nutanix was founded in 2009 and primarily provides
Today, Pivot3 announced a new video surveillance server that will use Lenovo’s ThinkSystem SR655 server. Pivot3 was founded in 2003 and shipped its first hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform in 2008. It currently focuses on providing HCI products, including both datacenter and edge platforms running custom software.
Today, Scale Computing has announced a new class of HC3 appliances, the Scale Computing HC3250DF. This All-NVMe appliance has faster storage, more CPU, and faster networking options. The Scale Computing HC3 Edge are hyperconverged solutions that include storage, compute, hypervisor, data management, data protection, and disaster recovery capabilities. The HC3250DF is designed to enhance support
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