Red Hat dons hyperconverged headware

Why hyperconverged?

Most shops seem to slide towards hyperconverged for an ease of use argument, and the old " One throat to choke" from the vendor...look at Nutanix w/ Acropolis...when it sucks, you know who exactly made it suck.

Redhat releasing code to run on commodity hardware to turn it into something marketing droids can call Hyperconverged addresses none of that.

Architecturally, Hyperconverged makes the most sense for extremely small and extremely large shops, but it tends to be pretty inflexible for the big middle ground where a degree of modularity in scaling makes a lot of sense. Why buy compute when you need capacity?

i actually hope Red Hat just knocks it out of the park, but I think they will find the niche it serves to be particularly small and unfulfilling....this could be the Zimbra of the hyperconverged world.