HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
CISCO HYPERFLEX 2.5
Finalist
In version 2.5, Cisco's HyperFlex Systems received a range of new capabilities including high-capacity all-flash nodes, native replication of clusters, and new management options. The high-capacity all-flash nodes are coupled with support for 40-Gbps UCS fabric networking, in order to expand customer choice and deliver higher application performance.
DELL EMC VXRAIL 4.0
Finalist
For VxRail 4.0, Dell EMC has outfitted the hyper-converged appliance with a massive number of new configurations for greater flexibility around use cases. VxRail 4.0 also provides twice the amount of flash storage and as much as 40 percent greater CPU performance than the previous version.
SCALE COMPUTING HC5150D
Finalist
Scale Computing's HC5150D hyper-converged appliance is aimed at enabling resource-heavy workloads such as large file storage and data warehousing, due in part to the use of a large amount of hybrid flash storage (77 TB per node) for increased speed and efficiency.
