George Nealon Joins HiveIO as VP of Global Sales/CRO, Shares Why Hive Fabric is Designed to Manage Workloads of the Next-Generation Intelligent Data Center
By George Nealon
George Nealon joins HiveIO as Vice President of Global Sales/CRO. With over 20 years of global enterprise sales experience and API integration from IBM, Apigee, and more, Nealon will play an instrumental role. Indeed, he’ll pursue the company’s strategic roadmap, especially as HiveIO focuses on strengthening its Hive Fabric HCI solution.
For the past seven years, I’ve worked with global corporations as they embarked upon the challenge of “digital transformation.” A successful digital transformation plan, therefore, requires that developers, tasked with delivering new, innovative applications, can locate and access data. This data resides in backend systems buried in the data center and across public and private cloud platforms. Crucially, it is equally important that there is no disruption to workloads running across these core systems of record, which are the lifeblood of the business. According to Gartner, this delicate balance is called “Two-Speed IT or Bi-Modal.”
Digital transformation dramatically changes how developers and their business counterparts go to market with new products and services. Furthermore, it also creates enormous demand and pressure on an already stressed data center team. They must be more responsive. They must ensure availability of core systems that end users depend on to keep the lights on. All too often, however, I saw priorities like digital transformation derailed. This happened because data center teams couldn’t keep up with the demands.
Why Legacy HCI Fails: The Need for True Intelligent Virtualization
In response, legacy virtualization vendors have been layering feature after feature. They attempt to meet the growing demand from companies to modernize their data centers. The introduction of Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) by a long line of vendors was the latest attempt. It aimed to streamline and simplify data center requirements. However, in a short period, the HCI space created a collection of commodity options that failed. They did not reduce cost, dependency on proprietary hardware, the need for product specialists, or complexity. Most also require bundling with other products or third-party solutions to address key capabilities like VDI. Consequently, Hive Fabric HCI offers a clear advantage.
Hive Fabric HCI: The Intelligent, Simplified Data Center Solution
When I was introduced to HiveIO and the Hive Fabric™ solution, I was captivated. The innovative approach, value proposition, and focus on simplification, all achieved through an underlying intelligence, stood out. Hive Fabric is an end-to-end software-defined data center solution. It deploys on commodity bare metal X86 hardware. It addresses the key features and visibility a data center team requires. This helps them keep up with the demands of a modern business. In a single click, Hive Fabric delivers:
- A KVM-based hypervisor
- Server virtualization
- Shared storage
- Storage acceleration
- Orchestration for management
- A rich set of VDI-specific capabilities
All these components are, moreover, connected by a powerful and intelligent Message Bus. This makes Hive Fabric HCI truly unique.
The Power of the Hive Fabric Message Bus: AI and ML Integration
A key differentiator of Hive Fabric is the Message Bus. It’s designed to capture all actions and data end-to-end. This spans from the hardware, to the hosts, to the virtual servers, to VDI, and end-user applications. The HiveIO engineering team purposely built the Hive Fabric solution to leverage this data. They use it in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). The goal: deliver intelligence to the data center.
The Hive Fabric solution removes complexity. It reduces the need for an army of specialists. You no longer need them to manage your three-tier architecture or HCI implementation. Due to the simplicity of management, a streamlined design, and reduced operational expense, Hive Fabric HCI is built to grow with your VSI & VDI deployments. Hive Fabric has become a very attractive option for education, healthcare, and financial organizations. It’s also ideal for managed service providers that depend on VDI. They rely on it to keep up with demanding end-user requirements.
Why Hive Fabric HCI Outperforms Traditional Solutions
In summary, Hive Fabric replaces traditional three-tier architecture and today’s HCI options. The solution installs in hours (not days). It eliminates the need for an army of expensive specialists. Hive Fabric reduces the time required to identify and resolve issues. It is delivering on the promise of HCI without the cost, complexity, and proprietary vendor lock that all other HCI vendors fail to mention. Ultimately, Hive Fabric is an intuitive, modern, visually appealing, and performant solution. The product is built on a foundation of core open-source components. It’s rooted in simplicity. It’s purposely built to deliver the benefits of AI and ML to the data center. All this comes with the added benefit that we can, indeed, clearly articulate the predictable Hive Fabric cost model in about 20 seconds.
Looking forward, the Hive Fabric solution is designed for the demands of the modern data center. It offers a foundational architecture and a rich set of core features. These are required to manage and respond to the workload requirements of the next-generation intelligent hybrid data center.