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Is hyperconvergence the way we'll all be doing hybrid cloud in 2017?

All aboard the hyper hype train

It's been a heck of a buzz phrase in itself, but hyperconvergence is now settling into a slightly more widely-understood groove as it begins to inform a lot of decision-making for those moving to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Basically a way of summarising ‘doing' the convergence of storage without having to shell out on disk arrays, it's a cost-cutting method that is proving increasingly attractive to customers, while there are still resounding fears of suffering the usual vendor lock-in as you let one particular third party lash all your drives together into one stack.

But it was only back in late January 2017 that HPE acquired SimpliVity - a $650m cash transaction which Meg Whitman claimed "fits squarely" into the centre of a broader "Hybrid IT" strategy.

Back in 2016, cloud infrastructure firm Nutanix acquired two startups itself - Calm.io and PernixData - who specialise in an automated DevOps platforms and storage virtualisation respectively.

Nutanix at the time admitted it made both acquisitions in order to build up its hyperconverge offerings.

Thus, Nutanix is perfectly placed for a debate about hyperconvergence, hybrid cloud, general strategy and anything else you may still be sightly baffled about.

And that debate is exactly what we're going to stage.

On 8 March at 3pm GMT, Nutanix will be joining us for a web seminar to talk all things cloud migration. With privacy regulations, cost, security and all manner of other factors spurring organisations to take this move, it's still never been less clear what to buy, where to put data, and how much to spend on the services or infrastructure to support it.

While hybrid cloud is a readily-accepted approach - a nice toss-up between keeping things you need or want on-premise while putting slightly lower risk stuff elsewhere - the addition of a hyperconvergence conversation on top is only going to make those decisions muddier.

After HyperGrid - another firm with hyperconvergence on its list of business interests - showed from an FOI last week that 53 per cent of London boroughs consider their general infrastructure to be in need of an overhaul, it's clear that change is very firmly in the air.

So join us on 8 March at 3pm to submit your questions to the panel, drive through vendor hype, and try to figure out whether hybrid and hyper can work for you as you refresh your IT loadout.

Is hyperconvergence the way we'll all be doing hybrid cloud in 2017?

All aboard the hyper hype train

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