back to article Hyper-convergence: Whither the alternative stack, VM lads?

A few weeks ago I attended Storage Field Day 7 (SFD7). Most of the conversations we had during the event were about hyper-convergence. We had at least three meetings where hyper-convergence was centre-stage: Maxta, Springpath and VMware. The market is very active, to say the least, and still in an effervescently expanding …

  1. Ammaross Danan
    Boffin

    Or XenServer

    Or the unmentioned XenServer which is "good enough" and offers the whole hog for free (with the obvious optional support contract fee).

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Alternative solutions? I don´t know

    What should I take instead of VMWare?

    VSAN <=> openvstorage?

    VSphere <=> ovirt?

    NSX <=> opencontrail?

    vCloud <=> openstack?

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