The pros and cons of hyper-converged solutions

Hyper-converged solutions (in essence a software-defined system with tightly integrated storage, networking and compute resources) are all the rage at the moment. However, while I was doing a talk on trends through the end of the decade, someone who represented an enterprise class company, explained why they didn’t work for him. They’d done extensive trials from a broad number of vendors and the results made it clear that they needed to approach their problems with a more traditional