Hyperconverged infrastructure is an all-in-one, IT infrastructure platform that assimilates storage, compute, networking, hypervisor, real-time deduplication, compression, and optimisation along with powerful data management, data protection, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Typically each unit is a scalable, modular, 2U building block of x86 resources that offers all the functionality of traditional IT infrastructure in one device. As additional resources are needed, more blocks can easily be added, enabling continuous change without the headache of integration and data migration.

Hyperconvergence addresses a lot of the common challenges found in the data centre:

• it stops licensing costs spiralling (can produce savings on VMware and Veeam license costs, as less are required);
• is much easier to manage than a traditional data centre (allowing resources to be re-allocated towards innovation and productivity);
• reduces your server footprint (typically 4 x 42U racks can be condensed down to 6U)
• provides HUGE power savings (less hardware = less consumption. Savings of £10,000/year for an SME aren’t uncommon)