Dealing with Hyperconverged Disasters
We needed a word for this
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ October 3, 2022
In the tech world, hyperconvergence has been a topic for some years. Thousands of seminars, meetings, and presentations have been spent attempting to sell people hyperconverged system technology. Education has worked for IT people, but for non-IT people, hyperconvergence is not even a thing.
At the risk of destroying the magic, hyperconverged systems are modularized server systems with switching networks and storage. The key is that these things come in packages that can be scaled by adding modules with different configurations. And they don’t require highly skilled network and system engineers to design, install, and manage.
But my point here is the term and not its technical uses. The term hyperconverged suggests several things radically pushed together, creating a new entity. As a marketing term, it is overblown.
The words should not be looked at too closely as they lead into linguistic rabbit holes where meaning disappears. My point is that the term hyperconverged seems to have escaped into the wild. This is appropriate as we are living in a world of hyperconverged disasters.
I define hyperconverged disasters as individual disasters that become modules of an…
