With a world heading towards Software Defined Anything to reduce complexity, deployment time, and carbon footprint, the term Hype in IT has gained a new meaning: Hyperconverged.
This new form factor tightly integrates network, compute, storage, and virtualization resources through the use of software instead of traditional hardware-based integrations. This is an evolution from traditional three-tier approaches (Compute, Storage Network, and Storage) to server-network-storage one-tier architecture.