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Cloud Infrastructure Options: How To Choose

InformationWeek, Wednesday, June 7,2023

When considering infrastructure options, mid-sized to large enterprises must carefully evaluate cost implications of hyperconverged, traditional, and distributed cloud.

When choosing a cloud infrastructure direction, it's important to weigh the advantages of three types, which include traditional, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), and distributed cloud architectures.

Traditional or three-tier infrastructure refers to the combination of disaggregated servers, storage arrays, and networking infrastructure.

Hyperconvergence provides a building block software-defined approach to compute, network, and storage on standard server hardware under unified management.

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