The Hyper-Converged Systems Market Is, Well, Hyper
There are a lot of areas in the Storage and related spaces that can claim to be hot but one whose claim is more solid than most is Hyper Converged Systems. IDC estimated that in 2014 the market grew by a staggering 162% to reach $ 373 Million. The growth is slated to only accelerate with the market this year estimated to grow to $800 Million and to $ 1.5 Billion next year. Eric Sheppard of IDC says "These systems are helping to deliver many of the proven benefits of integrated systems, including reduced complexity, risk, and inefficiencies, into new environments with targeted infrastructure needs or smaller budgets. As such, hyperconverged systems represent a market expansion opportunity for infrastructure suppliers and their partners." Converged systems, when they made their appearance, brought together more than one of the various infrastructure pieces, ie. storage, servers and the network, into a tightly bound solution. The objective, of-course, is simplificat...