Hyper-converged infrastructure is a software-defined system with tightly-integrated compute, storage, networking, and virtualization resources served in a single “out-of-the-box” solution. This eliminates discrete expansion or maintenance of different infrastructure components in a data centre and as well as reduced equipment footprint, rack, power, and cooling costs.

• Eliminates infrastructure silos and reliance on discrete components.

• Assured configurations that do not present incompatibility issues within the system in future upgrades and patches.

• Single-pane of management for compute, storage, network, and virtual environments.

• Quick deployment time and a single point of contact for support.

• Reduces server footprint, rack rental costs, power and cooling costs.

• Scales easily according to business needs by adding nodes.

• Potential CapEx and OpEx cost savings resulting from a streamlined approach to acquisition, deployment, management and support costs from a single vendor.

• Other advanced features include data deduplication, compression, and WAN optimization.