8. Protect Your Freedom To Choose
And Keep Maximum Flexibility
Most SAN products are proprietary solutions designed to run purpose-built software
on purpose-built hardware. These designs limit choice in platform flexibility on how
and where to run your applications and workloads, and they do not easily extend
to the cloud.
HCI is a software centered solution designed to run on a wide range of hardware
platforms and in the public cloud. This provides IT teams with the flexibility and
agility to deploy onto platforms and environments that best suit the business.
The most popular HCI technologies today offer a wide choice of hardware and
hypervisor along with the flexibility for organizations to scale according to their
business needs. HCI presents IT teams with their own choice of storage and data
services such as file, block, object, and container services. It is flexible enough to
be deployed as a foundation for private clouds and can also be extended to public
clouds for unified operations across the hybrid cloud.
HCI is a software centered
solution designed to run on a
wide range of hardware plat-
forms and in the public cloud
