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Reading Time: 2 minutesStorMagic has just announced the version 2.0 of its SvHCI full-stack HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) solution, which is purpose-built for enterprise edge and small to medium-sized business (SMB) environments. First version 1.0 was just released 6 month ago, in June 2024. The key new features in SvHCI 2.0 include:
Reading Time: 2 minutesNutanix Cloud Platform can be delivered with Nutanix hardware (Nutanix NX) but also with a lot of other type of hardware (or public cloud). Nutanix now supports also the reuse of certain vSAN Ready Node hardware, allowing organizations to repurpose their previously-purchased hardware and transition smoothly from VMware to Nutanix.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStorMagic has just announced a new HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) solution called SvHCI, which combines a hypervisor and virtual networking with the provider’s proven virtual storage technology used by thousands of customers around the world. This full-stack HCI solution is purpose-built for edge and small to medium-sized business (SMB) environments and includes StorMagic’s in-house 24x7x365 customer support.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the last Nutanix .NEXT event there was a big announce: Nutanix and Dell Technologies collaborate again on new joint solutions for hybrid multi-cloud. If you remember, 10 years ago, there was an announce of a Dell & Nutanix alliance to provide the Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances. Somehow the Dell vxRail success killed the XC appliances, but now (maybe after the Broadcom acquisition) there can be again an joined solution between the two companies.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last .NEXT event there was a special celebration: 10 years ago Nutanix AHV was born! Ten years ago, Nutanix started on a groundbreaking initiative to develop a new enterprise hypervisor named Acropolis, now known as the AHV hypervisor. Inspired by the public cloud approach to virtualization, it was built as an enterprise hypervisor tailor made for the cloud era. I’ve start writing about AHV in this post (June 2015), but the product was already in early stages some months before.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome years ago, I’ve published a post about the Hyperconverged infrastructure market share (2018)… but what about now? How HCI has grow? HCI has become a hot topic with several vendors that aim to be a leader in this area, or with several “magic quadrants” that try to define who is in.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStarWind Virtual SAN eliminates any need in physical shared storage by simply mirroring internal hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers. Its solution use a hyperconverged approach to maintains high performance and data high availability on minimalistic resources (it’s build around a two nodes architecture).
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