Best Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions - Page 2

The massive expansion in the number and diversity of applications, as well as an explosion in the amount of data being generated and transported through enterprise data centers, has pushed the architectural limits of modern IT infrastructure to its breaking point. Traditional “scale-up” approaches, where infrastructure services are embedded into top-of-rack switches, networking and security appliances, are no longer able to keep up, making performance, agility and scale limitations a fact of life for many businesses. Pensando Systems was founded on the belief that there has to be a better way to address these complex issues. We have taken a ground up approach to build a platform that gives enterprises the unique ability to drive cloud-like agility, security and operational simplicity across their entire infrastructure with unmatched scale and performance.

Red Hat® Hyperconverged Infrastructure—based on our leading OpenStack® and virtualization platforms—provides co-located, scalable, software-defined compute and storage, automated by Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform on economical, industry-standard hardware. Reduce deployment time, decrease operating costs, and streamline roll-out on a compact footprint. Manage your compute, network, and storage resources from a single interface. Support modern workloads with scalable architectures on industry-standard hardware. Consolidate planning, design, procurement, training, management, upgrades, and support with a single Red Hat subscription. Put more power on the network edge where skilled resources and space are limited. Tap into the innovation of upstream communities with the assurance of enterprise-ready capabilities and without being locked into proprietary offerings.

StarWind VSAN has been designed with small businesses’ needs and restricted IT budgets in mind. It pulls out close to 100% of the IOPS from your existing raw storage —no crazy expensive hardware required. Licensing is flexible and transparent without any pitfalls or feature paywalls. Virtual SAN from StarWind ensures high uptime and fault tolerance starting with just two nodes. You don’t need a witness if you don’t want to have one. Your IT environment won’t skip a beat even if you lose an entire node plus one individual storage device, HDD or SSD. Scale up, down, or out when and how you need it. Operate your HCI clusters through a unified StarWind web UI. Our engineers will assist in migrating your existing workload to StarWind at no extra cost! Our solution has been specifically designed to bring enterprise-grade features to SMBs, which do not operate corporate budgets. StarWind VSAN requires no witnesses and brings all the promised benefits in a two-node scenario already.

StarWind HCA comes fully pre-configured and fine-tuned to your requirements by StarWind Engineers. StarWind assists with the migration to its solution at no extra cost. There are no hidden costs or licensing pitfalls: StarWind HCA comes with standardized, transparent licensing. It’s a unique StarWind practice not offered by any other HCI vendor for free. StarWind Command Center, a single-pane-of-glass management and monitoring web UI, is also included together with every StarWind HCA license. Control your hardware resources (networking, storage) and software resources (workload, VMs, backups) from a unified convenient dashboard in the form of a neat HTML5-based user interface. StarWind has picked only the highest quality components from the most trusted hardware vendors on the market. The need for a dedicated, old-fashioned, cord-jungle of a datacenter is no more. All the essentials are included in a space-savvy HCI platform that is a fire-and-forget solution.

The HPE SimpliVIty 2600 enables high performance even at high user density. It reduces the performance impact of client login storms, delivering a superior user experience through unmatched client virtualization performance. The HPE SimpliVity 2600 brings hyperconvergence to the edge. The compact form factor is ideal for virtualized workloads in space-constrained environments. The HPE SimpliVity 2600 delivers a scale-out architecture which reduces initial capital expense and tightly aligns investments with business requirements. Allows building blocks to be added incrementally, providing a massively-scalable pool of shared resources. The HPE SimpliVity 2600 provides built-in backup and disaster recovery capabilities for the entire client virtualization infrastructure, as well as for supporting management workloads.

Typically installing a new hyperconverged infrastructure is very much a do-it-yourself project. Customers must configure, test, debug, optimize, validate, etc., on their own. However, the ThinkAgile VX Series eliminates time and effort by completing those steps before it leaves the factory. The VX series arrives at your doorstep with everything you need to get started and with Lenovo professional services to do the installation and configuration for you. A successful hyperconverged solution requires a reliable platform. The ThinkAgile VX Series integrates the world’s most reliable servers from Lenovo with VMware vSAN to provide a solid foundation for growing business. VX Series offers configuration flexibility to meet any use-case, and all systems are available in all-flash or hybrid configurations. Scaling compute or storage capacity is easy, you can start small, with as few as 3 nodes, and add more storage capacity to each node or add more nodes to scale performance and capacity.

Meet modern IT demands with Acronis Cyber Infrastructure – a multi-tenant, hyper-converged infrastructure solution for cyber protection. Reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximize productivity with a trusted IT infrastructure solution that runs disaster recovery workloads and stores backup data in an easy, efficient, and secure way. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure has been optimized to work with Acronis Cyber Cloud’s suite of products to ensure seamless operation. Leverage a solution that fits any business model. It separates the software from the hardware and offers flexible licensing, including a pay-as-you-go model. Ensure that systems are up and running smoothly and troubleshoot problems before they impact end-users or third-party systems. Built-in management and monitoring tools make it easy. Solve data integrity issues and ensure your data is secure with integrated Acronis CloudRAID and Acronis Notary with blockchain technology to verify data authenticity.

Our new multi-cloud offering includes VMware Cloud Foundation-Subscription (includes Tanzu Standard), which adds a flexible term-based licensing option for on-premises deployments. VMware Cloud Foundation supports both traditional enterprise and modern apps and provides a complete set of highly secure software-defined services for compute, storage, network, security, Kubernetes and cloud management Increase enterprise agility and flexibility with consistent infrastructure and operations across private and public clouds. Achieve reduced CapEx and OpEx and lower TCO with consistent operations and the broadest range of deployment options. Run workloads at scale without compromise with consistent infrastructure for both existing enterprises applications and modern containerized applications. Provision agile infrastructure from a pool of virtualized resources on premises, at the edge, or in the cloud.

The VersaStack solution, jointly developed by IBM and Cisco, combines a comprehensive set of converged infrastructure and software-defined technologies to help speed digital transformation. VersaStack brings new levels of ease, efficiency, and versatility to cloud, big data, and enterprise application deployments. Deliver autonomous data center operations, and lower capital expenditures, operating expenses and TCO. Dynamically allocate resources from pooled compute, network and storage resources, on-prem or in the cloud. Support hybrid and ITaaS to enable on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud deployments. VersaStack delivers IT automation and versatile infrastructure that is enabled for public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments. Address capacity needs with all-flash and hybrid data storage options; optimize existing storage solutions; and support block, file and object data.

Hyperscale networking software engineered for the distributed 5G wave, from the data center to the core to edge to multi-cloud, delivers massive scale and ultra-fast convergence. Integrated monitoring and analytics engine offers deep network visibility and real-time intelligence along with predictive analytics and actionable insights. Run ACE on your existing infrastructure, deploy from anywhere, and reduce your operating expenses with faster onboarding and higher reliability. Fully compliant with open standards and allows network operators to seamlessly integrate with 3rd-party automation and orchestration tools. ACE platform offers a three-layer stack with a flexible, scalable architecture to interconnect enterprise data centers and service/cloud provider infrastructure. The industry's first internet-scale, independent network operating system. Scale-out route reflector with industry-leading convergence times. Actionable real-time intelligence for your network.

Standardize on powerful and secure hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver all applications and data at any scale, on any cloud. Power your business with advanced cloud technologies and simplify how you procure, deploy, and manage IT services. Accelerate your most demanding applications with consistent and predictable performance. Data locality maximizes the benefits of the latest hardware advances like NVMe and RDMA. Data is protected and kept available with advanced distributed consistency algorithms that protect against everything from bit rot and hardware failures to entire site failure. Storage can be sized precisely for your needs and expanded quickly and easily as needs grow. Storage policies are applied logically on a per-workload basis, instead of being tied to hardware.

You can enjoy all the benefits of StarWind hyperconverged appliance without investing into the proprietary hardware from us. You may obtain the software, the exact set of components powering our virtualization platform, pre-packaged and ready to be installed on your own hardware. A choice of the supported hypervisors (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or our own flavor of KVM), in-house developed storage virtualization software called StarWind Virtual SAN, pushing data over the proven iSCSI or cutting-edge NVMe-oF, with the help of RDMA technology (if available), an intuitive web management, an AI-powered sophisticated telemetry, and “call home” system. Wait no more and schedule Virtual HCI Appliance demo now! Our sales engineers would be happy to help you to find out about full feature set, estimated performance you can expect from your hardware, limitations, and certain support restrictions applied to the virtual HCI appliance compared to the physical one.

Cisco's collaboration with Nutanix delivers a comprehensive hyper converged infrastructure solution that integrates computing, storage, and networking resources into a unified, software-defined platform. This partnership leverages Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) hardware and Intersight management platform alongside Nutanix's software capabilities to provide a scalable and efficient HCI environment. The solution offers zero-touch operations from the data center to the edge, enhancing resilience through natively integrated networking and allowing independent scaling of compute and storage resources to meet evolving application needs. It supports various configurations, including Cisco's C-Series rack servers and the modular X-Series systems, catering to diverse enterprise requirements. Management is streamlined via Cisco Intersight, enabling deployment, configuration, and oversight of hyper-converged systems from a single interface accessible anytime and anywhere.

Get the power of the enterprise workload engine. Boost workload performance, improve security and speed up innovation for your business. vSphere delivers essential services for the modern hybrid cloud. The new vSphere has been rearchitected with native Kubernetes to run existing enterprise applications alongside modern containerized applications in a unified manner. Transform on-premises infrastructure with cloud integration. Boost productivity with central management, global insights and automation. Power up with add-on cloud services. Meet the throughput and latency needs of distributed workloads by accelerating networking functions on the DPU. Free up GPU resources for faster AI/ML model training and higher complexity models.

It's never been easier to adopt hyperconverged infrastructure. Power more mission-critical apps. Flexible services for multicloud. Deploy HyperFlex anywhere with Cisco Intersight. Cisco HyperFlex offers a variety of flexible hyperconverged infrastructure configurations engineered on the Cisco UCS platform. Explore the latest M5 and edge nodes for your specific business needs. Simplify operations and boost performance of mission-critical applications such as SAP apps and Microsoft SQL. Cisco offers a variety of hybrid cloud and container management services to offer you choices. Power applications at the edge with flexible configuration options and multisite management. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) combines compute, virtualization, storage, and networking in a single cluster. Starting with as few as three nodes, users can easily scale out to match computing and storage resource needs. Hyperconvergence brings cloudlike simplicity on-premises.

Nfina’s hybrid cloud platform is a fully managed IaaS and DRaaS solution designed to protect your business from ransomware. With Nfina’s hybrid multi cloud solution, copies of critical data are maintained on-site and off-site. This ensures your IT infrastructure is always available for recovery and downtime is kept to a minimum. Nfina becomes your single point of contact, making storage, compute, backup, disaster recovery, and system monitoring easy. Nfina’s hybrid cloud services offer peace of mind with geo-redundant backup and disaster recovery, enhanced performance, reduced and predictable cost. A team of qualified engineers with decades of experience eliminates concerns related to staff expertise or workload. Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud solutions offer more benefits than the public cloud without the cost and complexity. Nfina customers save up to 50% more with Nfina’s hybrid multi cloud solutions versus public cloud solutions.