How HCI Is Evolving
Published: February 2, 2023,
By: Gene Everette
The Demand for Hyperconverged has Skyrocketed
The urgency that businesses must install a hyperconverged infrastructure in their IT environment is growing tremendously. According to Globe News Wire®, the global market for hyperconverged services and products was estimated at $2.7 billion in the year 2020. It is projected to grow to $22.2 billion in the United States by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 34.8% over the analysis period 2020-2027.(1)
Implementation of hyperconverged infrastructure is increasing the most with businesses that need to decrease spending in IT costs, increase their efficiency of data center expansion, reduce their carbon footprint, ease IT operations and management, or establish a more scalable and nimble infrastructure proficient enough to effortlessly fulfill IT requirements.
Major growth drivers for the hyperconverged market include multiple advantages to HCI such as disaster recovery proficiency and a reduction in capital and operational expenditures.
Most large enterprises are deeply embedded in the cloud; there are no reports that large enterprises are transitioning away from the cloud anytime soon. This is why Nfina believes that the vast majority of the growth projected for HCI is coming from mid-size enterprises and small businesses.
Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a Service (HCIaaS)
You may have heard of Storage as a Service (STaaS) or Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), but there is one as-a-service solution that has been on the steady incline in recent years, that solution is Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a Service (HCIaaS).
Traditional HCI merges servers, storage, and network assets into a single hypervisor, providing customers with access to simplified, focused data center management. HCIaaS raises the bar by authorizing data center workers to acquire HCI in a way that guarantees to lower both financial and operational expenses.
Senior analyst Naveen Chhabra at the IT research company Forrester® states, “It basically turns the capital expenditure and one-time investment into an operating expense. In most cases, the vendor will also manage the HCI’s day-to-day operations.”(3) The rise in HCIaaS is possibly propelled more by suppliers noticing a chance to give assets on a subscription groundwork. Principal research director Fred Chagnon, of the IT research company, Info-Tech Research Group says, “HCIaaS combines the HCI product with an outsourced engagement model, providing a capability to procure the necessary infrastructure, as well as have it installed, and operated by a single vendor.”(3) Fundamentally, Hyperconverged as a Service removes the requirement for a company to manage, provision, and troubleshoot its IT infrastructure.
Benefits of Using Nfina for HCIaaS
With Nfina’s HCIaaS, our customers receive access to data storage and backup services without the need to purchase, manage, and maintain their hardware. Our customers also receive storage and geo-redundant backup, ransomware protection, data encryption with an instant rollback feature, backup and DR testing for business continuity and many more features.
Cost-Effective | Choosing Nfina’s HCIaaS solution is a very effective way to reduce costs for any size organization. Nfina’s HCIaaS eliminates the need to purchase and maintain on-prem storage hardware, resulting in infrastructure cost reductions. Taxes will also be significancy less when choosing Nfina’s HCIaaS.
Reduced Labor | When using Nfina’s HCIaaS, it eliminates the burden off of your business to manage your infrastructure. We manage everything for you.
Reliability | Disaster recovery and fault tolerance are integrated in a HCIaaS system with high availability so if one node goes down, the other nodes take over the workload.
Why Choose Nfina’s Hyperconverged?
Nfina’s Hyperconverged solutions are ideal for businesses of that demand easy-to-use and affordable while remaining powerful, flexible, and reliable.
With Nfina’s HCI solutions, you can expect efficiency, reduced energy consumption, and low up-front costs. Nfina’s HCI makes it easier for businesses to manage capital expenses and avoid over provisioning. Our HCI solutions also enable our customers to scale their digital transformations in an upward fashion. This revamps space and reduces power consumption.
Nfina’s Hyperconverged Features
- Affordable with business continuity built-in
- High-Availability Dual-Controller Clustering
- Highly configurable network options
- Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
- High-performance storage for backup, disaster recovery, or business continuity solutions
Conclusion
Hyperconverged is being implemented rapidly across the world. The global market for HCI was estimated to grow from $2.7 billion in 2020 to $22.2 billion in 2027. (1) It is our belief that the projected growth for HCI and HCIaaS will come from the mid-size enterprise and small business because there is no evidence that large enterprises plan to vacate the cloud. Not only is traditional HCI on the rise, but so is Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a Service (HCIaaS). With Nfina’s HCIaaS solution, we manage your HCI environment, removing the burden from your IT staff and organization.
Sources
[1] Globe News Wire®
[3] Network World®
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