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The Genesis of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

In the first decade, the technology gods separated the data and the code and invented the mainframe. It was expensive to install, complicated to operate and did not have much software. Then the technology gods created an IT department to feed and care for the mainframe. Corporate management thought it was too expensive, but the IT department solved more problems ...

Nathan Brookwood

In the first decade, the technology gods separated the data and the code and invented the mainframe. It was expensive to install, complicated to operate and did not have much software. Then the technology gods created an IT department to feed and care for the mainframe. Corporate management thought it was too expensive, but the IT department solved more problems than it created, so they went along with the program.  In the second decade, the technology gods invented the minicomputer. It was so affordable that any department could have its own system, and soon the corporate landscape was marked with
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