IDG Contributor Network: ZeroStack and Nimble get close to offering a converged infrastructure solution
Maybe I haven’t attended many legacy vendors’ conferences lately, but I haven't seemed to have heard many converged infrastructure mentions recently.
Go back a year or two and every legacy vendor under the sun (and every younger vendor wanting to partner or be acquired by a legacy vendor) was dropping the converged infrastructure moniker all the time. Converged infrastructure (CI from now on) is a pretty simple concept, one which users of personal computing devices will see as normal. Essentially CI is all about offering storage, compute and the infrastructure to run it all within one unit. Instead of having a standalone storage device, some compute infrastructure elsewhere, and some software to tie it all together, CI packs it all up nicely with a bow on it.
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