VMware Named a Leader in 2018 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that VMware is positioned in the Magic Quadrant Lead Quadrant of Gartner, Inc. for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

"In our opinion, Gartner has recognized the important role played by software in driving the next-generation hyperconverged infrastructure in this report," said Lee Caswell, vice president of VMware's Product, Storage and Availability activities. "We believe that this magical quadrant for hyperconverged infrastructure captures the strong momentum behind the long-term strategic HCI platforms of software-based vendors such as VMware, and we believe that VMware positioning in the Leaders quadrant confirms the impact of our overall vision, strategy and VMware vSAN offering in today's IT environments.

Summary of the hyperconverged Infrastructure of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner states: "Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is a scalable software infrastructure category that applies a modular approach to computing, networking and storage on standard hardware, using distributed horizontal building blocks under uniform management." This Magic Quadrant: focuses exclusively on on vendors and offers in the hyperconverged software segment; removes the hardware configuration of the system, which is part of the HCIS device model; defines the market segment as a hyperconverged infrastructure, making delivery models for software only / bring your own hardware and cloud service delivery; limit evaluation of storage and data management capabilities embedded in technologies for which suppliers have primary responsibility for development and ownership.

"We believe that VMware is well positioned to compete in the evolving HMI market as part of a software shift," added Caswell. "We are convinced that we offer a range of solutions, from data centers to cloud, computing, storage, network management and management, and we are supported by proven business models based on industry-leading solutions - software with some of the most comprehensive ecosystems in the world. industry. "

VMware vSAN: continuous innovation stimulates the acceptance of customers
vSAN is the native simple storage for enterprise enterprise VMware vSphere, used by more than 10,000 customers for many uses, including critical and native cloud applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote office / branch (ROBO) and disaster recovery environments. (2) VMware vSAN provides customers with an efficient, non-disruptive path to evolve their existing vSphere virtualization environments into a highly available secure hyperconverged platform, whether deployed on-site or in a wide range of public clouds. Today, VMware offers vSAN hyperconverged options, from vSAN ReadyNode solutions to Dell EMC VxRail Appliance to HCI, as the underlying building block for the AWS-based VMware Cloud on Demand offer. Recent product features include:

1. Native HCI protection: Obtain a software-defined idle data encryption solution designed to protect you from unwanted data access. VSAN customers using vSAN encryption can select all vSAN certified hardware to further reduce hardware costs by avoiding expensive SED drives (on-encryption drive).
2. Effective and economic protection of locations: adopt improved stretched clusters with local protection to ensure resilience against local and local component defects. These highly available clusters can be used up to 50% less than traditional storage solutions.
3. Proactive cloud analysis: use vSAN Cloud Analytics and the new analytics framework to optimize environments with access to real-time support notifications and tailored recommendations. Cloud-based analyzes can be continuously improved with new controls and functions without customer intervention.
4. Next generation hardware support: Deploy the latest flash technologies that enable vSAN-powered HCI solutions to accelerate key workloads when new technologies come onto the market without delays and forklift upgrades. vSAN 6.6 introduces support for Intel® Optane ™ SSDs and Intel® Xeon® scalable processors, which can improve the performance of versatile workloads and write intensive applications such as volumi data analysis