If you want to understand the impact from digital transformation on IT, then you simply have to look where the data is being produced and where it will reside. The slide below has engraved in my mind because it shows crystal clear where the puck is going to.
After the explosion of data caused by the mobile revolution, we now enter the next stage doing IoT, AI and machine learning and the only chance to manage this will be software-defined on top of hyperscale and hyperconverged infrastructures.
My favorite slide 2017 is from the Wikibon study ‘Hyperconverged Infrastructure as a Stepping Stone to True Hybrid Cloud’ which I can highly recommend for further reading.
Hyperscale infrastructures are required to build very large and scalable clouds. Hyperscale is differentiated from hyperconverged infrastructure as being built and deployed by a single large cloud or application service provider, e.g., Amazon, Facebook, Google or Microsoft. Enterprises and service providers can use hyperconverged infrastructure to achieve similar economies of scale. At the end of the day there is no way around hyperscale/hyperconverged and the art lies in seamlessly connecting between the clouds.
Thank you and congrats to Wikibon for this slide! You nailed it down, and you already did with your first version, back in 2014 – I love sustainability!
Dear readers, if you haven’t done yet, I’d like to encourage you to develop your multi-cloud strategy and a plan on how to use hyperscale and hyperconverged infrastructures: hurry up, in 2018 those shares will become significant 😉