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Mid-sized companies can reduce technical debt and free up IT budgets by switching to hyperconverged infrastructure systems (HCIS) in their next data centre refresh. So says Gartner, which defines 'mid-market' as companies with fewer than 200 virtual machines. The IT analyst firm's recommendation appears to be getting through …

  1. chivo243 Silver badge

    does this mean that return of the IT generalist?

    What? sorry I must have nodded off. I have always been an IT generalist. What the future brings we shall see.

    Hard is the future to see. An IT generalist must have the deepest commitment.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: does this mean that return of the IT generalist?

      Also if you have the less than 200 VMs then you are probably are not large enough to have specialised teams, if you do then there is one place to cut costs. Larger companies, with thousands of servers, 10s-100s of storage systems, networks crossing the globe, would have specialised teams, the type of companies that they don't say should use these.

  2. elDog

    Sounds like IT tech word churn

    And a way to get eyeballs on some Gartner or El Register document.

    1. chivo243 Silver badge

      Re: Sounds like IT tech word churn

      I wondered the same thing... How does Gartner get so much ink on El Reg? If it weren't for Gartner's reports, what would Gartner have?

      Does anybody listen to what the report anyway?

      1. Professor Clifton Shallot

        Re: Sounds like IT tech word churn

        I had a manager who regarded Gartner report in much the same way St Joan did the voices in her head.

        Our actions were run to the dictates of these divine utterances and even if it lead to us being burned at the stake we could meet our doom face-on, consciences clear in the knowledge that we had done the Right Thing.

  3. Roland6 Silver badge

    Hyperconverged infrastructure systems (HCIS)

    Arrh the new name for the mainframe...

    1. Surreal
      Coat

      Re: Hyperconverged infrastructure systems (HCIS)

      Just as The Cloud is the new name for Time Sharing. Gotta keep it fresh somehow.

      1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

        Re: Hyperconverged infrastructure systems (HCIS)

        Yeah Man, bring back RSTS/E or even TSE

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Happy

      Re: Hyperconverged infrastructure systems (HCIS)

      Yep. The components sprawl out as we pick-a-part to accelerate each bit according to our particular loads. And then we stuff it all in a chassis (spread across racks side by side if necessary) when latencies becomes an issue. "As the IT World Churns...."

      Everything I've ever seen to date has looked like something found in the IBM 360's and 370's I learned on as a kid, from IBM engineers as a matter of fact (with a heavy helping of manuals). There have been oddball things done but still.... So, looking around, rack to datacenter, all I see is mainframe.

      Personally, I believe that if your in this biz for the long haul, you have to be able to operate as one or more kinds of specialist and a decent generalist. So Gartner is simply describing a simple truth. And making a ton of money doing it.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Hyperconverged infrastructure systems (HCIS)

        Don't get me started on the infrastructure's team's predilection for putting app servers, database servers and storage as far apart as possible. Seems their ease of maintenance trumps the application actually working.

        The worst I've seen is a data warehouse in one country, and the ETL servers in another country - and not even an adjacent country at that. I guess they could have been in different continents ...

  4. Graham Newton

    Fantastic

    What do magic quadrants do and where can I get them? Diagon alley perhaps?

  5. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Reduce your Technical Debt with this new buzzword?

    Not when the programs (sorry Apps) are full of hacks and work arounds it won't!

    Another Gartner 'content free' report. Just like most of them really.

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