Casting our eye over HCI - Ruairi McBride - Ep65

Tech Interviews

I've spoken a bit recently about the world of Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) especially as the technology continues to mature, with both improved hardware stacks and software looking to take advantage of this hardware, it is becoming an ever more compelling prospect. How do these developments, an HCI version 2.0 if you like, manifest themselves? Recently I saw a good example in a series of blog posts and videos from friend of the show Ruairi McBride, which demonstrated really well both the practical deployment and look and feel of a modern HCI platform. The videos focussed on NetApp's new offering and covered the out of the box experience, how to physically cable together your HCI building blocks and how to take your build from delivery to deployment in really easy steps. With that in mind, I thought a chat with Ruairi about his experience with this particular HCI platform, how it goes together, how it is practically deployed and how it meets some of the demands of modern business would make an interesting podcast. So here it is! We discuss what HCI is and why it's simplicity of deployment is useful, we also look at the pro's and cons of the HCI approach. We look at the benefit of a single vendor approach within our infrastructure and how the modern business technology landscape and desire for a more "cloud like" experience within our on-premises datacentres is driving interest in HCI. We wrap up by looking at why as a business you'd consider HCI, what problems will it solve for you and what are the use cases that are a strong HCI fit and of course, it's important to remember that HCI isn't the answer to every question! Ruairi shares some great info and experience - so settle back and enjoy the show. Full show notes are here :-https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1z2