Revolutionize IT with Hyperconverged Infrastructure

5 Reasons To Consider HCI

Simplify IT Management

HCI consolidates compute, storage, and networking into a single platform, simplifying management and liberating your IT team to focus on strategic initiatives.

Scalability

HCI is designed to grow with your business, allowing you to easily add nodes to your infrastructure as your demand increases.

Improved Performance

With all resources integrated, HCI optimizes data processing speeds and enhances storage efficiency to ensure peak performance.

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Built-in features for data protection such as automated backups, snapshot capabilities, and disaster recovery give you peace of mind that your data is secure and easily recoverable.

Cost Savings

By consolidating your IT infrastructure, HCI reduces the need for expensive standalone servers and storage systems, leading to significant cost savings.

Get Agile with HPE Alletra dHCI

HPE Alletra dHCI stands as an innovative solution, offering a unique blend of simplicity and flexibility. This disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure comes pre-integrated into every HPE Alletra array, requiring only an HPE server to be activated, making it an easy and cost-effective way to benefit from HCI. It's a solution designed for businesses with mission-critical applications, providing a self-managing platform with optimized performance and efficiency. With the power of predictive analytics, HPE Alletra dHCI guarantees 99.9999% availability, ensuring your data is accessible whenever you need it. By reducing complexity, it enhances operational efficiency, giving your IT teams the freedom to focus on accelerating your business instead of managing infrastructure. In essence, HPE Alletra dHCI brings the agility of the cloud with the reliability and resiliency of on-premises infrastructure, setting a new standard for HCI.

Get Efficient with HPE SimpliVity

As an efficient HCI all-in-one, HPE SimpliVity reduces complexity and business overhead, allowing simplified operations for apps from edge to core. Its infrastructure and advanced data services are efficiently packed into a single, scalable building block, allowing customers to start small and grow. Complete with simple management, just 2-nodes for HA, built-in data protection, and efficient data mobility to easily move and/or clone VMs between sites, HPE SimpliVity simplifies and collapses the IT stack, removing silos with built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery. As one of the most intelligently simple HCI solutions on the market today, HPE SimpliVity is proven to reduce data center devices by 10:1, achieve 90% capacity savings across production and backup storage, and reduce TCO by 43% over traditional infrastructure.

Our Top HCI Partners

HPE

As a leading name in IT solutions, HPE brings forward its cutting-edge Alletra dHCI system. This innovative solution delivers the benefits of HCI through a disaggregated, software-defined model, while retaining the flexibility of independent scaling of compute and storage. With top-notch data services and AI-driven automation, HPE ensures resilient and efficient operations, making it a favored choice for businesses of all sizes.

Nutanix

As a pioneering name in the HCI market, Nutanix offers a software-driven infrastructure solution that brings together compute, storage, and networking. Ideal for any workload, Nutanix streamlines deployment and scales with your business needs.

VMware

VMware's vSAN offers a cost-effective and scalable HCI solution. Paired with the vSphere hypervisor, it empowers businesses to manage compute and storage with a single platform, leading to significant cost and time savings.

Dell

Experience IT transformation with Dell's VxRail, a turnkey HCI system that integrates vSAN, vSphere, and vCenter management. VxRail delivers continuous innovation, providing a robust, market-leading HCI solution that simplifies lifecycle management.

StorMagic

StorMagic's SvSAN offers a lightweight, highly available two-node HCI solution that is perfect for edge computing and small datacenter needs. It eliminates physical SANs, making it a cost-effective solution that can be deployed quickly and easily.

Cisco

Cisco's HyperFlex delivers complete hyperconvergence by combining computing, storage, and networking into an easy-to-use platform. With seamless integration into existing applications and the flexibility to be used with a range of hypervisors, HyperFlex ensures a smooth IT experience.

Advantages of HCI

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) represents a significant leap forward in the evolution of IT systems. It combines storage, compute, and networking into a single system, streamlining management and enabling more efficient resource utilization. The advantages of HCI are numerous and wide-ranging, helping businesses to effectively address today's IT challenges while setting the stage for future growth. Here, we delve into four key benefits that are central to the rising adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure: Hyperconvergence and Virtualization, Software-Defined Infrastructure, High Availability and Fault Tolerance, and the Future of IT.

Hyperconvergence and Virtualization

HCI takes full advantage of virtualization, a technology that separates the physical hardware from the software. This enables multiple operating systems and applications to run on the same server at the same time. When combined with HCI's integration of compute, storage, and networking resources, this allows for a flexible, efficient IT environment that can readily adapt to changing business needs.

Software-Defined Infrastructure

At the heart of every HCI solution is the concept of a software-defined infrastructure (SDI). SDI abstracts IT resources from their physical hardware, allowing them to be managed and automated through software. This provides unparalleled control over your IT resources and paves the way for more sophisticated management and automation features.

High Availability and Fault Tolerance

HCI is designed with redundancy in mind. If one component fails, another can automatically take over, ensuring that your applications stay online and your data stays safe. This is ideal for businesses that require high availability and fault tolerance in their IT infrastructure.

The Future of IT is Hyperconverged

As digital transformation continues to evolve, businesses are increasingly looking to simplify their IT infrastructures and focus more on strategic initiatives. HCI is leading the way in this shift, providing the efficiency, flexibility, and scalability needed for businesses to thrive in the modern digital economy.

VLCM—Your HCI Partner

VLCM is more than just a vendor—we're your partner. We'll work closely with you to understand your needs, identify the right HCI solution for you, and support you throughout the implementation process. We also offer ongoing management and support services to ensure your HCI solution continues to deliver value long after deployment.

To learn more about how HCI and VLCM can transform your IT infrastructure, get in touch with us today by filling out the following form, or giving us a call at 1-800-817-1504. Together, we can turn your IT challenges into opportunities.

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