
Author: Herman Rutten
Technical consultant and Solutions architect with 20 years of field experience. At first focused on on-premises IT Infrastructure including enterprise servers, storage, virtualization, backup/restore and disaster recovery. Following evolutionary industry changes the scope has gradually broadened to public cloud, data security, hybrid connectivity and advanced analytics. Category Lead for the independent WhatMatrix Analyst community since 2015.


NetApp = “HCI” or not (and why should we care)?
Jump here to see the up-to-date analysis of top rated SDS & HCI products Jump here to see the “What SDS & HCI Platform Landscape Report” (free download)NetApp HCIWhen NetApp announced its very own HCI platform halfway through 2017 there was a lot...
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 delivers strong new capabilities
Last week Cisco’s HyperFlex 3.0 software was finally released to the public. The General Availability (GA) meant we at WhatMatrix had the green light for publishing all the new and optimized features that come with this major release. So what exactly does the third...
Pivot3 Acuity rises to meet modern business demands
Top Rated CMPs – Landscape Report 2019 announcedPivot3’s journey into HCI began before the word “hyper-converged” even became a term. Evolving from a software-defined software solution that was devised by the company almost 15 years ago, they...