Every year, the industry looks forward to embracing

percent to reach almost $ 2 billion in 2016, propelling it

disruptive technologies that change the traditional

toward mainstream use in the next five years. HCIS will be

approach to IT and equip businesses to deal with new

the fastest-growing segment of the overall market for

challenges. Hyper-convergence is probably one of the

integrated systems, reaching almost $ 5 billion, which is 24

most-talked about topic for analysts and IT leaders this

percent of the market, by 2019.

year. Hyper-convergence infrastructure is a softwarecentric architecture which is rapidly gaining interest and adoption worldwide. Major tech vendors and solution providers have already upped their ante to reap the best of

Here are the reasons organizations across the world are adopting hyper-convergence.

Improved Efficiency

this emerging technology.

HCI includes the latest flash technology and powerefficient

Hyper-convergence has been touted as the panacea for the

processors which make it more efficient than the

increasing challenges on the IT teams to remain costprocesses

traditional data centers. This will help in simplifying your

effective, while providing better performance, protection,

and eliminate complexity. With the exponential

and resiliency to the business and end users. The

growth in data today, you can easily phase out the time

immediate benefits of hyper-convergence infrastructure

spent in data centers to manage the storage and reduce it

that also include improved stability, faster time to value

considerably. Less number of IT staff will reduce your

and reduction in physical footprint, as well as the long-term

financial burden also.

advantages like the reduction in the amount of serverrelated incidents and a single point of contact for any issues that pops up post sales whether it is related to the compute, storage or virtualization which adds to the customer satisfaction.

According to a recent survey by Gartner, the market for

Hyper-Converged Integrated Systems( HCIS) grew 79

Reduced Cost of Operating

HCI consumes less floor space and hence will result in lower rental costs for data centers. With the less power consumption and heat production, it can help in significantly reducing operational costs. It is highly flexible and you can quickly convert your needs to functionality without going through the procurement process, if there is