IT departments continue to embrace Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). Software defined, HCI provides improved flexibility and economics by virtualizing the elements of conventional hardware-defined infrastructure.

As the technology matures, infrastructure managers and other stakeholders are developing more sophisticated criteria and best practices for selecting an HCI solution.

As users of HPE SimpliVity discussed on IT Central Station, the most effective HCI solutions provide simplicity of management, cloud options, efficiency, high availability, fast backup and restore as well as the consolidation of the data center footprint.