Data is rising at a rate of 50% or more each year, and it is being stored on the block, FILE, or object storage systems. New visibility and CONTROL requirements are putting more pressure on storage managers. And cloud storage has grown in importance to the point where it must be incorporated in whatsoever storage ARCHITECTURE. Legacy storage infrastructure, on the other hand, is unable to meet the demands imposed by these new realities. It's compartmentalised, which adds to the COMPLEXITY, inhibits flexibility, and lowers usage. Legacy infrastructure does not provide enough data visibility to fulfil the new compliance or control requirements. It was created before the cloud, making the deployment of cloud-like capabilities extremely challenging.

HCI dismantles silos and CONSOLIDATES all assets into a single, easy-to-manage resource. The more "invisible" infrastructure there is, the greater, and HCI expands that invisibility to storage. With HCI, you may create a cluster with a range of nodes depending on your needs at the time—storage-heavy nodes whenever you need storage, CPU-heavy nodes whenever you need computation, and so on.