![]() ![]() The company has expanded its initial focus on applications within the data centers of larger organizations to broaden its customer base and support for non-x86 servers. Nutanix has recently introduced new software capabilities and hardware models targeting edge and branch office deployments. The San Jose, Calif.-based company launched its Enterprise Cloud OS in 2011, which combines storage, hypervisor, security software-defined networking and management. Gartner ranked Nutanix No.1 in both vision and execution on the Magic Quadrant. The fast-growing hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer, founded nearly a decade ago, has transitioned itself into a software-only HCI powerhouse. The Magic Quadrant ranks vendors on their ability to execute and completeness of vision and places them in four categories: Niche Players (low on vision and execution), Visionaries (good vision but low execution), Challengers (good execution but low vision) and Leaders (excelling in both vision and execution). On the business side, vendors must have a minimum of 100 production customers in at least two major geographies for each product to be evaluated provide complete level 1 and level 2 support and deliver products that meet user requirements in key HCI use cases. To be included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, vendors must provide high level functionality including an integrated software stack that includes unified management and software-defined compute, storage and networking combined virtual machine and software-defined storage resources both running on the same servers virtualize local, internal and direct-attached storage and have storage and data management services integrated in the offering. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Research Methodology Here are the 14 vendors that made Gartner’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure Magic Quadrant, along with assessment of each company’s strengths and weaknesses in the space. To accommodate this shift, HCI leaders are beginning to target the needs of remote offices and edge environments. The IT research firm predicts that by 2022, 75 percent of enterprise generated data will be created and processed outside a traditional, centralized data center or cloud, up from less than 10 percent in 2018. Hyper-converged vendors are expanding their strategy to embrace hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, as well as offering new software-only and reference architecture options, according to Gartner’s report. Hyper-Converged Innovation Engine Full Steam Ahead In 2019īusinesses are placing their bets on hyper-converged infrastructure to fulfill their business-critical enterprise applications and data center simplification needs, according to Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Ranks Top HCI VendorsĬisco, Nutanix, Pivot3 and VMware are just some of the hyper-converged infrastructure providers who made Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for HCI. ![]()
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