Over the past few years, a lot has happened to IT and to
the technology industry. First and foremost, business
leaders continue to demand more from their IT functions,
including better and faster service, with seemingly endless
expectations for increased efficiency.

In addition, several industry trends have had significant effects
on enterprise IT:

At the center of all these trends lies hyperconvergence, which
is the third generation of a series of converged opportunities
that have hit the market. Hyperconverged infrastructure (also
known as hyperconvergence) is a data center architecture that
embraces cloud principles and economics. Based on software,
hyperconverged infrastructure consolidates server compute,
storage, network switch, hypervisor, data protection, data
efficiency, global management, and other enterprise functionality
on commodity x86 building blocks to simplify IT, increase
efficiency, enable seamless scalability, improve agility, and
reduce costs.

The hyperconvergence story has many chapters. In this small
book, it discusses the trends that are leading modern IT to hyperconverged
infrastructure. It also discusses both the technical
and business benefits that come from implementing a data
center based on hyperconverged infrastructure.