IDC: Hyper-converged platforms catching up with converged systems

Storage Digest A roundup of storage content from TechTarget's network |Jan. 2, 2018 FEATURED STORY Hyper-convergence outgrowing converged infrastructures Garry Kranz, Senior News Writer According to recent IDC research, 2017 was a big year for hyper-converged platforms. Global revenue of converged systems saw a big increase, but much of that came from hyper-converged platforms. (Storage Soup) Advertisement NEWS   'Weird' but profitable NAS vendor touts hardware Meet iXsystems, Silicon Valley's low-key NAS vendor that manufactures systems using open-source software running on commodity hardware. (Storage Soup)   Toshiba storage node software to be released in 2018 Designed to virtualize and pool NVMe-based PCIe SSDs in target storage servers, Toshiba's soon-to-be-released storage node software is meant to "make the world a better place for NVMe." (Storage Soup) EXPERT ADVICE   SDDC adoption to continue on slow pace The software-defined data center market has yet to explode. SDDC benefits are well-documented, but the architecture sometimes fails to deliver on expectations. (SearchStorage)   Let your HCI vendor make the hypervisor choice The virtual machine hypervisor that hyper-converged infrastructure customers choose should fit the mission of HCI, which is to simplify IT administration. (SearchConvergedInfrastructure)   Building a case for buying a hybrid flash array Hybrid storage arrays offer the speed and low latency of flash and the economy of HDDs, tape or cloud, making them worth investigating. (SearchStorage)   NVMe over Fabrics and SCM disruption is on the way Storage class memory and NVM Express over Fabrics, or NVMe-oF, technologies prove innovation is alive and well in the storage industry. (SearchStorage) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Storage Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Storage Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2017 TechTarget. All rights reserved.