Why Converged Infrastructure Is Getting So Popular
"This is a trend that is really gaining steam in the industry,"
Whitman said of hyper-converged infrastructure, where servers, storage
and networking are sold as pre-integrated bundles. "Instead of buying
everything and knitting it together yourself, you buy an integrated
play."
HP offers converged infrastructure with all-HP gear, yet it also lets customers substitute Cisco switches if they want, though Whitman feigned incredulousness with the notion that anyone would want to go this route. "Why you'd want to pay that price is not clear to me at all," she quipped.
HP runs its entire technology backbone on HP networking and storage
products, and uses no Cisco networking or EMC storage gear, Whitman
said.
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