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Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined IT framework that revolutionizes the data center by consolidating traditional, separate hardware components—specifically compute, storage, and networking—into a single, unified system, typically running on industry-standard x86 servers known as nodes. The intelligence of HCI lies in a distributed software layer (often running on a hypervisor) that abstracts and pools the local resources of all nodes, effectively creating a shared, virtual resource pool that can be managed from a single pane of glass. This consolidation dramatically simplifies management, lowers complexity and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and allows for linear, modular scalability where an organization can grow its compute and storage capacity simultaneously simply by adding another node, making it an agile and efficient foundation for virtualized workloads, private clouds, and remote office environments.