Software Reshuffles Gartner’s Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Pecking Order (FB)
Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for hyper-converged infrastructure is out, using such a different definition of “hyper-converged” and with such a narrower a focus, that you can’t compare vendor positions to previous years. In particular, software-only, “bring-your-own-hardware” hyper-converged systems have become significant enough to earn a place in the report, because they’re increasingly competing with hyper-converged hardware appliances. That means Microsoft and VMware’s hyper-converged software is now in the report. VMware appears in the Leaders quadrant, along with Nutanix, Dell EMC, and HPE. Microsoft shares the Visionaries quadrant with Stratoscale. The Challengers quadrant is occupied by Cisco, Huawei, and Pivot3, while the Niche Players are Scale Computing DataCore, and HTBase.