Dave Henry of GeekFluent comments:

Today Cisco announced their entry in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure marketplace, a solution called HyperFlex.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) can be thought of as “Virutalization in a Box”. An HCI solution is one that offers everything needed for server virtualization: compute, memory, network, storage, hypervisor, and management/orchestration for all of these.

Cisco is throwing their ten-gallon hat into the hyperconverged ring. It will be interesting to see where this all plays out.

Read more at: Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex