Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions emerged more than a decade ago and have seen broad adoption in organizations of all sizes. The value proposition remains the same: HCI makes good business sense for organizations with limited IT resources and the need to respond to changing business demands.

The IT environment is more complex than ever, with virtual machines (VMs) running diverse workloads distributed across the corporate data center and multiple branch locations. Deployment and management challenges are inevitable — complex implementation and configuration delay time to value, and in-house IT staff must devote significant time to ongoing maintenance.