VMware Named a Leader in 2018 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
February 09 2018 - 8:00AM
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) today announced that VMware has been
positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s 2018 Magic
Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. (1)
“In our view, Gartner has recognized the important role software
plays in powering next-generation hyperconverged infrastructure in
this report,” said Lee Caswell, vice president of product, Storage
and Availability Business Unit, VMware. “We believe this Magic
Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure captures the strong
momentum behind long-term, strategic HCI platforms from
software-focused vendors like VMware. We further believe that
VMware’s placement in the Leaders quadrant validates the impact our
comprehensive vision, strategy, and VMware vSAN offering are having
in today's IT environments.”
Gartner Magic Quadrant Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Summary Gartner states that “Hyperconverged infrastructure
(HCI) is a category of scale-out software-integrated infrastructure
that applies a modular approach to compute, network and storage on
standard hardware, leveraging distributed, horizontal building
blocks under unified management.” The report further states that
“This Magic Quadrant: Focuses exclusively on vendors and offerings
in the hyperconverged software segment; Drops the system hardware
requirement, which is part of the HCIS appliance model; Defines the
market segment as hyperconverged infrastructure, allowing for
software-only/bring-your-own-hardware, and as-a-service cloud
delivery models; Limits the evaluation of integrated storage and
data management capabilities to those technologies for which
vendors have primary development responsibility and ownership.”
“We feel that, as part of a shift towards software, VMware is
well positioned to execute on the evolving HCI market,” Caswell
added. “Our belief is that we offer a breadth of solutions spanning
from the data center to the cloud and across compute, storage,
networking and management. In addition, we are backed by proven
software-based business models with some of the industry’s broadest
ecosystems.”
VMware vSAN: Continued Innovation Drives Customer
AdoptionvSAN is VMware’s simple, enterprise-grade native
storage for VMware vSphere that is used by more than 10,000
customers for a range of use cases, including business-critical and
cloud-native applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI),
remote office/branch office (ROBO), and disaster recovery
environments. (2) VMware vSAN provides customers with an efficient,
non-disruptive path to evolve their existing vSphere virtualization
environments to a secure hyperconverged platform that is highly
available, whether deployed on-premises or in a broad choice of
public clouds. Today, VMware offers hyperconverged options with
vSAN—from vSAN ReadyNode solutions to the Dell EMC VxRail Appliance
to HCI as the underlying building block for the on-demand VMware
Cloud on AWS offering. Recent product features include:
- Native HCI security: Enjoy a software-defined,
data-at-rest encryption solution that is built to protect against
unwanted access to data. vSAN customers using vSAN Encryption can
select any vSAN-certified hardware to further lower hardware costs
by avoiding expensive self-encrypting drives (SEDs).
- Efficient and economical site protection:
Adopt enhanced Stretched Clusters with local protection to provide
resiliency against both site and local component failures. These
highly available clusters can be deployed for up to 50 percent less
than leading traditional storage solutions.
- Proactive cloud analytics: Use vSAN Cloud
Analytics and its new analytics framework to optimize environments
with access to real-time support notifications and custom
recommendations. The cloud-based analytics can be continuously
enhanced with new checks and functionality without requiring any
customer intervention.
- Support for next-generation
hardware: Deploy the latest flash technologies enabling
vSAN-powered HCI solutions to accelerate key workloads as new
technologies arrive on the market without delays and infrastructure
forklift upgrades. vSAN 6.6 introduced industry-first support for
Intel® Optane™ SSDs and Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, which can
help boost the performance of both general-purpose workloads and
write-intensive applications like big data and streaming
analytics.
VMware continues to expand use cases for VMware vSAN with the
new VMware HCI Acceleration Kit and Project Hatchway. The HCI
Acceleration Kit accelerates the adoption of distributed IT by
reducing the cost and complexity of expanding enterprise IT
features beyond the data center. Project Hatchway enables
persistent storage for stateful applications via the vSphere Cloud
Provider, which provides access to vSphere storage powered by
VMware vSAN or traditional SAN and NAS storage.
To read a complimentary copy of the 2018 Magic Quadrant for
Hyperconverged Infrastructure, go to:
https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-4QMEPNX&ct=180207&st=sb
Additional Resources
- Learn more about VMware vSAN
- VMware Radius: Software Reshapes the Hyperconverged
Infrastructure Market
- Read up on VMware vSAN customer success stories
- Keep up with VMware vSAN on the Virtual Blocks blog
- Test drive VMware vSAN via Hands-On Labs Online
- Connect with VMware on Twitter and Facebook
(1) Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure,”
John McArthur et al, 6 February 2018.(2) Internal VMware Analysis,
August 2017
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