Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) combines common datacenter hardware using locally attached storage resources with intelligent software to create flexible building blocks that replace legacy infrastructure consisting of separate servers, storage networks, and storage arrays. Benefits include lower TCO, increased performance, and greater productivity within IT teams.
Lenovo Nutanix
Nutanix provides an enterprise cloud platform which combines storage, computing,and virtualization for clients. The company’s software product families include Acropolis and Prism. In 2015, Nutanix was reported to have built a hypervisor in order to make managing computer infrastructure easier.
As of 2020, the company is working to shift to a subscription-based model for billings.
Hypergrid
Mountain View, CA – July 25, 2016, Gridstore, the leader in hyper-converged all flash infrastructure, and DCHQ, a revolutionary technology that deploys and manages existing enterprise and new cloud-native applications seamlessly across any cloud or container infrastructure, have merged to launch a new company, HyperGrid. HyperGrid delivers the industry’s first HyperConverged Infrastructure-as-a-Service (HCIaaS), an application aware offering that brings the simplicity and ease-of-use of HCI together with a pay-as-you-consume pricing model that scales elastically. HCIaaS is the first solution that bridges the needs of traditional and cloud-native developers with IT Operations, delivering an AWS-like environment for your Enterprise that enables complete DevOps.