Technology innovation has been responsible for the development of all sorts of extraordinary productivity tools in the legal profession and has sparked the creation of amazing new ways for legal professionals to collaborate. It’s also forced us to learn a whole new vocabulary. Even the most technophobic law firm partner now walks around dropping terms such as “gigs” and “the cloud” — words that had much different meaning to us as recently as a decade ago.
Well, brace yourself for another addition to that burgeoning techie vocabulary, because law firm IT is about to be transformed by a new approach to the way that your computers, servers and data storage operations are managed. This new generation of enterprise IT is known as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). It might not roll off the tongue with ease, but HCI is not as mysterious as the name would suggest.
