This IDC white paper reviews important market trends that have driven rapid growth in global hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) deployments. This paper outlines the ways in which hyperconvergence is evolving to become an enterprise-class datacenter platform capable of supporting the stringent demands of mission-critical and hybrid cloud environments. This paper also provides an overview of NetApp's HCI portfolio of solutions and a summary of an in-depth interview IDC conducted with a NetApp HCI customer.