What’s the logical next step for software-defined networks, software-defined storage, and the like? The software-defined data center of course. That’s what Red Hat is bringing to market today in its Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
This is a production-ready, open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software stack. This is a software-centric architecture, which tightly integrates compute, storage, networking, and virtualization resources to help enterprises bring data center capabilities into branch offices and other remote facilities.
The public cloud is all well and good, but companies with distributed operations, such as banking, energy, or retail businesses, need the same speedy infrastructure services in remote and branch offices that their main-offices get from their data centers. Delivering these cloud-in-a-box services are easier said than done.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure addresses these challenges by integrating compute and storage together on a single server or a small cluster of servers. It enables organizations to deploy and manage distributed infrastructures centrally. This, in turn, gives remote locations high-performing systems without expert, on-site support staff.