Christian Perry is a Senior Research Analyst covering IT infrastructure at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In this role, Christian covers emerging and disruptive infrastructure technologies, including hyperconverged infrastructure and composable infrastructure. He also manages the Voice of the Enterprise products – built on 451 Research's proprietary global network of senior IT decision-makers – covering hyperconverged infrastructure. With more than 20 years of experience tracking and analyzing the IT infrastructure market, Christian brings broad knowledge to research around software-defined and cloud-native technologies that increasingly shape today's market. Prior to joining 451 Research, Christian was Practice Manager and Principal Analyst at Technology Business Research, where he directed the firm's infrastructure research. Christian also held roles at Comdex, Treehouse Software, and Sandhills Publishing, and nearly 1,000 of his articles have appeared in technology publications, including Processor, Smart Computing, PC Today, Baseline and others. Christian holds a master's degree in journalism with high honors from The University of Memphis.
Highlights from 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: Hyperconverged Infrastructure survey show that HCI is rapidly expanding in edge locations to support a wide range of use cases, from general IT management to edge-specific requirements such as fleet management. The adoption experience appears to be generally positive, as most customers plan to expand their HCI at the edge in the coming years.
With its recently announced Fungible GPU-Connect architecture, Fungible disaggregates GPU resources and makes them available over Ethernet for servers throughout a datacenter environment. By removing GPUs from the constraints of host servers, Fungible aims to optimize AI/ML and other workloads that can benefit from dedicated accelerator resources.
After rolling out an extensive expansion of its edge portfolio in October 2021, Dell is continuing that motif. While some of these additions will support horizontal market requirements, Dell is using the announcements to highlight its increased support for retail and manufacturing customers.
The company's new HyperFlex Express is designed to ease the entry to market for customers seeking to modernize their applications and move forward with hybrid cloud deployments. Although limited compared with other HyperFlex models, it should serve as an effective stepping-stone for resource-strapped IT teams that need the transformative benefits of HCI.
The company continues to build intelligence into its composable infrastructure platform, driving higher levels of reliability into underlying infrastructure. While it faces plenty of competition in the quest to modernize IT environments, its tightly focused strategy and growing partner roster should drive recognition.
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