Hyperconverged Infrastructure Growing in IT, SMBs Lead the Way
… ahead of larger enterprises when it comes to adopting and using HCI, according to Slack.
“SMBs went ahead with HCI five years ago,” he said. “They’re not as conservative. They may have had a SAN and instead of replacing it they bought HCI. They did and it worked for them. They’ve gone all in already.”
That’s a different strategy than the one usually taken by large enterprises, which typically don’t go all in on anything when it comes to IT changes, said Slack.
When comparing HCI and CI, five out of six survey respondents rated HCI better than CI based on six characteristics, which surprised Slack because the respondents have been long-time users of CI components and are quite familiar with them.
“Every year [of this study] the acceptance has grown,” said Slack. “We’re across the threshold this year.”
Interestingly, in last year’s study respondents said the biggest shortcoming with HCI was handling mission-critical applications, he said. This year the number one answer to the question was “none,” with handling mission-critical applications in second place.
“This is a tool in the tool box now that enterprises are comfortable with,” said Slack. “This technology is not new, this is not on the way up – this technology is reaching its apogee at this point. If any of your readers aren’t selling this then they are probably out of business.”
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