HPE SimpliVity hyper-converged FAQs get answered
Summary
The SimpliVity hyper-converged product line was mature enough and the companys customer base deep enough to get one of its major enterprise partners to buy it in early 2017.Only the people involved in the deal can truly say why, and Kempel simply said in the press release announcing the purchase that "joining HPE is the logical next step for SimpliVity.As of the time of the HPE acquisition, SimpliVity claimed a total of 1,300 customers that either had purchased OmniCubes or OmniStack software on servers from Cisco, Dell EMC, Lenovo or Huawei.The 2600 is a 2U device , intended for running a virtual desktop infrastructure, but HPE has indicated it will market it for edge computing and IoT applications because of its relatively small footprint.The 2600 is the first new product that fulfills the HPE promise to do away with the OmniStack Accelerator Card, running all the data compression and deduplication in software alone.