Tag: SpringPath

  • Cisco Announces Intention to Acquire Springpath

    On Monday, Cisco ended over a year of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) speculation and announced their intent to acquire Springpath. In this case, instead of Cisco the networking company, we’re looking at Cisco the manufacturer of the Unified Computing System (UCS) compute platform. Springpath makes hyperconvergence software. Cisco has been running that software — rebranded as…

  • Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex

    Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex

    Today Cisco announced their entry in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure marketplace, a solution called HyperFlex. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) can be thought of as “Virutalization in a Box”. An HCI solution is one that offers everything needed for server virtualization: compute, memory, network, storage, hypervisor, and management/orchestration for all of these. Cisco’s HyperFlex solution uses: Cisco Unified Computing…