Hyperconvergence-as-a-service offers hands-off data centre management
A managed hyperconvergence service can provide data centre operators with cost benefits, reduced staff workloads, and cloud-related scalability benefits
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Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has made substantial inroads in enterprise environments, and vendors have responded with new use cases and purchasing scenarios, including an emerging deployment option: HCI-as-a-service.
Conventional HCI combines servers, storage and network resources into a single box, providing adopters with a gateway to simplified, centralised data centre management. HCI-as-a-service (HCIaaS) ups the ante by enabling data centre operators to adopt HCI in a manner that promises to reduce both operational and financial overhead.