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The cloud services market is increasingly driven by customers with highly focused IT requirements.

This is an understandable perspective.

A person standing in front of a rack of servers inside a data center

Chief Product Officer at StorMagic.

Difficult challenges

In these circumstances, organizations often choose to resume onsiteIT infrastructureimplementation and support themselves.

At the same time, the range and complexity of edge applications is increasing enormously.

HCI consolidates computing, networking, and storage resources into a single, streamlined data center architecture.

This can be achieved without the hardware architecture and implementation challenges associated with traditional edge technologies.

Of particular benefit is that todays HCI solutions are designed with the limitations of smaller remote sites in mind.

This includes features that simplify the process of connecting edge technologies to cloud services and corporate data centers.

This can be achieved while also offering the associated cost benefits of reduced hardware spend.

For organizations with limited space in their remote sites, HCI reduces the physical footprint required to install hardware.

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