HCI Is The Dominant Converged System, Probably For Good

April 5, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Way back in the dawn of time, all systems were “converged,” meaning that their compute, storage, and networking were embodied in their totality within the same system. These functions were pulled apart and a slew of best-of-breed server, switch, and storage appliances were created and they could be mixed and matched in myriad ways. Some might say in too many ways for the vast majority of IT shops, who don’t have the luxury of bales of money laying around to attract PhDs in computer science.

As distributed computing really took hold in the 1990s, but the 2000s it was clear …