Hyper converged infrastructure (HCI)

Ensuring your HCI solutions are robust, reliable and high-performing.

Ensuring successful HCI deployments

In today’s digital landscape, enterprise organizations increasingly rely on robust and reliable IT infrastructure solutions to support their business-critical operations and meet the ever-growing demand for data storage, processing, and availability. As such, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions are playing a progressively crucial role in supporting businesses across various industry sectors with their ability to deliver high performance, scalable, and resilient IT environments.

Many organizations leverage HCI solutions to enhance edge computing initiatives, enabling distributed data processing and analysis closer to data generation sources – often to comply with data sovereignty laws (e.g. GDPR). Other organizations such as those in the healthcare, finance, retail, and manufacturing sectors are adopting HCI solutions to support critical workloads and ensure data security, efficiency, compliance and accessibility.

 

 

The performance challenges of dynamic networks

As HCI solutions gain momentum across a wide array of industries, providers are often challenged by the high expectations of enterprise customers, particularly when it comes to infrastructure performance and reliability. A key hurdle lies in optimizing the network layer to manage increasingly intensive workloads.

Issues such as latency, packet loss, bandwidth constraints, and outages can significantly degrade HCI performance, compromise data integrity, and disrupt user experience.  For throughput-sensitive applications operating under demanding conditions, it is essential to test performance under a controlled environment.

Test under emulated conditions to optimize HCI networks

Emulating real-world network conditions enables precise tuning of HCI solutions for both performance and dependability. With a robust testing solution, HCI providers can proactively tackle these challenges and ensure seamless, efficient operations.

An effective testing solution goes beyond merely mimicking network issues; it empowers HCI providers to fully optimize their solutions. This involves comprehensive testing for cloud object storage validation, network file transfers, data protection and disaster recovery, metro availability, low-latency infrastructure for critical applications, and scalability performance.

Ensuring seamless deployment through comprehensive network testing.

Your guide to ensuring HCI deployment success

Test and measurement solutions for HCI

NE-ONE Enterprise

Model meshed networks and verify applications under all conditions. Utilise scenario builders, comprehensive reporting and powerful integration to gain deep insight into app performance.

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SNE

Predictable Network Performance. Calnex SNE is a highly flexible solution for both network emulation and network simulation. Build your own network easily in seconds.

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