Hyperconverged Infrastructure: When Virtualization Became an Operating Model (From 2018 Onwards)
From around 2018, a clear shift can be observed in the infrastructure world. Not loud, not flashy, but fundamental. Virtualization, which for years had been understood primarily as a technical capability, changes its role. It is no longer just an architectural choice, it becomes an operating model. This is exactly where Hyperconverged Infrastructure enters the […]
Beyond Servers: How Network, Storage and Desktop Virtualization Merged into One Infrastructure Reality (2015–Today)
From around 2015 onwards, the story of virtualization can no longer be told as a set of separate technologies. Network virtualization, storage virtualization and desktop virtualization are increasingly discussed together, not because it sounds cleaner or more modern, but because this is how infrastructure has actually evolved. Virtualization leaves the server room as an isolated […]
When Servers Learned to Share: Virtualization as an Infrastructure Revolution (1998–2005)
At the end of the 1990s, IT infrastructure was still rigid and physical. Server rooms were loud, hot, and packed with individual machines, each running a single operating system and usually a single application. Hardware was massively underutilized, often running at only five to fifteen percent capacity, yet every new application meant another physical server. […]
Hyperscalers and the Rise of Global Data Center Networks
Hyperscalers are not a sudden phenomenon, but the result of a long structural evolution in IT infrastructure. While the term itself appeared in the early 2010s, it only became truly relevant from around 2015 onward. From that point, the data center landscape began to change visibly. Data centers were no longer regional assets tied to […]