I never hear about this anymore. Did Cisco ki-l it or lay most of them off or something? Or maybe with AWS/Azure it is rendered irrelevant? Seems like this was a darling 3 years ago, and almost no emphasis now.
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HCI is a great solution until it comes to refresh hardware. Then you get IT managers trying to look good and not spend the capex and prove to upper bean counters they can save (in the first year) some money and migrate to the cloud. It's a hard continuous grind and there is a lot of competition in there with Nutanix and the like. Best of luck...
Hyperflex, UCS, or anything that is a server is nothing I would hang my career hat on. The buffoons in the centers do most of that work now. But then any geeksquad knucklehead can do this type of work and certainly better than bangalore.
What I'm finding is every HCI customer eventually has a major crash/outage that totally loses faith in the solution. Its all fine and dandy until something breaks (software blow up, botched upgrade, etc.)
HX is a total disaster. Nutanix and VMWARE ran away with the hci market. It's game over, man.
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