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Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions (HCIS) Market: 116 Percent Growth in 2015
Where are technologies like virtualization, containerization, and software-defined enterprises taking us? Hyperconvergence is a term some are beginning to use to describe an architecture for IT infrastructure that builds on a set of nodes that work together to manage computing and storage resources. The nodes can be scaled up or down as needed.
Standard IT infrastructure consists of components, each with a pre-defined purpose, that act as building blocks for the system. In the standard architecture, computation and storage nodes act separately. Virtualization is typically applied to the individual nodes to improve overall flexibility.
In a hyperconverged infrastructure, the line between computation and storage blurs: all nodes in the system are software defined. Some vendors that are selling hyperconverged solutions include SimpliVity, Nutanix, EMC and Dell.
IDC says that the HCIS market is growing at 116 percent annually and will reach $800 million by the end of the year. Next year should see continued growth on the order of 94 percent, reaching $1.5 billion globally.
In a Gartner report, Mike Cisek and Jeffrey Hewitt, advise business that are “highly virtualized midsize enterprises with fewer than 200 virtual machines should absolutely opt for hyperconverged infrastructure.”
The Gartner report on the HCIS market found that:
- Business lose agility when they get bogged down with infrastructure complexity and maintenance issues
- Businesses are under constant pressure to simplify their data centers and to reduce costs.
- Midsize enterprise have not adopted HCIS solutions because of the high cost
