{"id":26452,"date":"2016-12-06T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T11:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/dec\/06\/simplivity-and-huawei-team-hyperconverged-play\/"},"modified":"2016-12-06T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T11:03:14","slug":"simplivity-and-huawei-team-up-in-hyperconverged-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/simplivity-and-huawei-team-up-in-hyperconverged-play\/","title":{"rendered":"SimpliVity and Huawei team up in hyperconverged play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/iStock_yinandyang214236_3xVdRj5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/DundStock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hyperconverged: it&rsquo;s a word which elicits knowing nods from those in the industry, and looks of panic from those few who haven&rsquo;t heard of it. Yet hyperconverged infrastructure, bundling in compute, storage, networking and virtualisation in a software-centric architecture, is here to stay, and Massachusetts-based SimpliVity has today announced a deal to put its OmniStack technology on Huawei FusionServer in a new collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The offering is available on SimpliVity&#8217;s all-flash hyperconverged models.<\/p>\n<p>SimpliVity was named as a leader in Gartner&rsquo;s most recent Magic Quadrant for integrated systems, which covers hyperconvergence, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/Hyper-converged-infrastructure-product-survey-The-challengers\">being cited<\/a> by Computer Weekly as a challenger in the market earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Huawei, the company has forged technology alliances with Cisco, Lenovo and Dell. The latter, which bought EMC for $67 billion in October last year, to also include VCE and VMware, refreshed its hyperconverged lineup earlier this year, with a ZDNet article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/dell-updates-hyperconverged-lineup-to-resell-emcs-vce-systems\/\">at the time noting<\/a> that &ldquo;every enterprise hardware vendor is rushing to this fast-growing space.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This time round, the press materials note that Huawei and SimpliVity are two of the fastest growing IT companies addressing the fastest growing markets with this announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By combining SimpliVity&rsquo;s revolutionary hyperconverged technology with Huawei&rsquo;s servers and strong global footprint, more customers will be able to realise the unique benefits that only SimpliVity delivers,&rdquo; said Doron Kempel, SimpliVity CEO in a statement. &ldquo;By providing the most complete hyperconverged solution on the industry&rsquo;s leading server platforms, SimplIVity is putting customer needs front and centre.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Writing for this publication <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/oct\/24\/putting-the-converged-in-hyperconverged-support\/\">back in October<\/a>, Geoff Smith, senior manager at GreenPages Technology Solutions, mused on the issue of day two for hyperconverged &ndash; not the implementation, but when the platform is spinning away in the data centre.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Adopting hyperconverged as your next-generation technology play is certainly something to consider carefully, and has the potential to positively impact your overall operational maturity,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;You can reduce the number of vendor technologies and management interfaces, get more proactive, and make decisions based on real data analytics.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hyperconverged platforms can certainly enhance and help mature your IT organisations, but they do provide only part of the story,&rdquo; Smith added.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about SimpliVity and Huawei&rsquo;s collaboration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplivity.com\/omnistack-huawei-fusionserver\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/DundStock<br \/>\nHyperconverged: it&rsquo;s a word which elicits knowing nods from those in the industry, and looks of panic from those few who haven&rsquo;t heard of it. 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