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O’Haire told TechPro that in the timeline mentioned he believes traditional storage vendors will continue to enter the hyper-converged market, if they have not already. This will endorse the hyper-converged approach, he said, adding that “fledgling products might sit uncomfortably within vendor’s legacy portfolios and may not receive the focus they need.”

Asystec’s Keohane was another who said to keep a close eye on the hyper converged infrastructure where he would “expect strong growth there” as it becomes more established. Elsewhere, Keohane added that Flash will continue to become “increasingly economic” which will in turn “see more hybrid and all flash systems deployed within converged infrastructure, particularly XtremIO”. Keohane said, too, that greater adoption of EMC and VMware hybrid cloud solutions will also be evident.

On a final note, O’Haire said that a development he would hope to see is a change in the language used in infrastructure tenders. He said that many organisations are denying themselves the benefits of hyper-converged technology by using legacy language in their tender documents. “For example, asking for a certain number of disks or storage controllers or a particular redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) level or service area network (SAN) fabric is alien in the hyper-converged world, as these complexities are not present or necessary.”

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