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H
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continues to evolve rapidly to meet the
expectations of the Enterprise. First
generation HCI platforms achieved an immediate
return on investment and met a simple set of
goals to achieve rapid adoption and success:
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• The ability to collapse and consolidate large
traditional infrastructures to reduce capital
expenditures (CAPEX)
• Reduction in operating expenses (OPEX)
through simplified management tools and
complexity coupled with less of a dependency
on specialized technical resources. This
mandate for simplicity led to mainstream
adoption of HCI platforms, and still stands as
the fundamental core design principle for any
virtualization project today. While successful
at addressing simplicity, first generation HCI
platforms scaled inefficiently and suffered
from an inability to consolidate and protect
multiple workloads running on the same
platform. These limitations led to single
workload use cases and a lack of adoption of
mission critical, core data center workloads.
As the virtualization market has matured,
additional design points must also be
considered to address the limitations of first
generation HCI platforms:
• Intelligent scale. The ability to independently
manage five basic pools of resources: storage
performance, storage capacity, virtualized
CPUs, virtualized memory, and licensing
costs. Grow each dynamic pool based on your
unique, non-linear consumption.
• Confident deployment of all your applications.
Workload isolation provides a robust and
predictable infrastructure layer to guarantee
performance across the application layer.
• Efficient storage architecture. Built from the
ground up to prevent data locality issues,
stranding of resources, and management
overhead that reduces available capacity while
at the same time providing industry leading
guaranteed performance, data deduplication
and compression without compromise
• Data Services you can trust. Industry leading
data protection and portability.
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