Outcome · Infrastructure as one platform
One platform. Three problems gone.
Three-tier architectures were designed for an era when compute, storage, and networking were sold by three different companies. Hyperconverged Infrastructure treats them as one — managed by one team, scaled in one motion, lifecycle-aligned to one roadmap.
Three teams, three vendors, three roadmaps — for one workload.
The problem we solve.
Three-tier infrastructure was an artefact of how vendors organised the market, not how workloads actually run. Compute from one vendor, storage from another, network from a third, each with their own refresh project, support contract, and operations playbook.
HCI collapses the silos. One cluster, one operations team, one upgrade cycle, and a 30%+ TCO win that compounds across every workload moved onto the platform.
A posture you can prove.
One operating pane. One scale-out motion. One roadmap.
PILLAR.011
Operating pane
Compute, storage, and networking managed from a single console. One team, one runbook, one escalation path.
PILLAR.02Linear
Scale-out
Add a node, get more capacity. No forklift upgrades. No multi-quarter refresh projects. Capacity follows demand.
PILLAR.0330%+
TCO reduction
Versus three-tier equivalent — fewer vendors, fewer racks, fewer engineers required to operate the same workload.
PILLAR.04Cloud-grade
Automation
Provisioning, snapshots, replication, and DR all API-driven. Operates like cloud, lives in your facility.
30%+
TCO reduction, measured.From three-tier consolidation, single refresh cycle, and operations time reclaimed from cross-tier integration.
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Same workload. Two operating models.
A practical side-by-side. The differences are not subtle, and they compound over every refresh cycle.
- Three vendors, three sales cycles, three support contracts
- Three separate refresh projects, 12–18 months each
- Separate consoles for compute, storage, network
- Capacity grows tier-by-tier, usually wrong tier first
- Cross-tier incidents bounce between teams
- Hardware-defined limits on what software can do
- One platform vendor, one support relationship
- One node-by-node refresh cycle, scoped per workload
- Single-pane management for the full stack
- Linear scale-out, add nodes, grow everything together
- Incidents resolved by one team owning the cluster
- Software-defined, automation-first, cloud-grade ops
What this looks like delivered.
8–14 weeks across assessment, design, deployment, and migration. The cluster operates under steady-state SLA by the end.
Assess
- Workload fit analysis
- Capacity sizing
- Network requirements
Design
- Cluster topology
- Replication & DR integration
- Operating model
Deploy
- Cluster build
- Data migration
- Validation gates
Operate
- Single-pane operations
- Scale-out routine
- Lifecycle management
Three services. One delivered outcome.
This outcome is composed from our services. Each does one thing well, together they ship the posture above.
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Infrastructure Services
The HCI cluster build, the network integration, and the on-prem foundations the platform sits on.
Open Infrastructure Services // service.02Migration
Workload migration onto the HCI cluster — controlled cutovers with replication and rollback paths in place.
Open Migration // service.03Cloud Services
For the hybrid HCI extension — when the cluster needs to burst to cloud or replicate off-site for DR.
Open Cloud ServicesHonest questions.
Q.01What's the typical engagement length?
A typical HCI engagement runs 8–14 weeks across assessment, design, deployment, and migration, with the new cluster operating under steady-state SLA by the end.
Q.02Which workloads fit best on HCI?
Most virtualised general-purpose workloads, VDI, branch-office infrastructure, edge sites, and consolidated dev/test environments fit very well. Single-workload mega-databases with extreme storage profiles sometimes still belong on traditional three-tier.
Q.03How does it scale?
Linearly. You add nodes to grow capacity, compute, storage, and network scale together. No more three-team refresh project to grow one tier.
Q.04Where does the 30%+ TCO reduction come from?
Consolidating three vendors and three refresh cycles into one, automating provisioning and lifecycle (less ops time), and right-sizing capacity (less stranded hardware). Measured against the previous three-tier baseline, not modelled.
Q.05Does HCI replace cloud?
No. HCI is on-prem cloud-equivalent operations. For workloads that need to stay or should stay on-prem, HCI delivers cloud-grade automation, and it pairs cleanly with public cloud through hybrid topologies.
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Book an HCI fit review.
30-minute review of your current three-tier estate against an HCI target, workload fit, refresh-cycle alignment, and the TCO delta. No deck, no pitch.