Five reasons to look at hyper-converged infrastructure HCI promises easy setup, purchasing flexibility, low procurement and operation costs, reliability and all in one box – but there are challenges too Share this item with your network: By Published: 22 Apr 2021 Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) promises simpler, more flexible and potentially cheaper IT. By combining storage and compute resources – often tightly coupled with virtualisation – hyper-converged brings key resources into a single system. By removing the need for external storage and networking, HCI should be more reliable and easier to manage. IT departments can either buy integrated HCI hardware nodes or, as is increasingly the case, opt for software-based products.