Piolink is moving to target the university IT infrastructure market with its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, "POPCON HCI." Piolink said on the 19th that it secured a distribution base for entering the university market through Acanet, a company specializing in university informatization services, and registered POPCON HCI on "IT Market," operated by the Korea Education Research Network (KREN).
Universities rely heavily on virtualization infrastructure to run academic, administrative, and research systems stably. But the VMware-centered structure faces challenges such as expense increases, the burden of license management, and uncertainty over future scalability. Piolink is responding by proposing HCI as an alternative that targets both next-generation information system builds and demand for cloud migration.
POPCON HCI integrates virtualized servers, storage, and networks into a single platform so it can replace or transition from existing VMware-based environments in stages. Without a complex licensing structure, it provides all advanced features—high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), load balancing (LB), and backup and recovery—under a "perpetual license." It supports both virtual machine (VM) and container environments on a single platform for efficient operations on an integrated platform. It has also validated technical stability by securing numerous deployment cases in the public and corporate sectors.
Piolink CEO Cho Young-cheul said, "Universities need a VMware alternative that satisfies both infrastructure stability and expense efficiency," adding, "With POPCON HCI, we will practically support universities' next-generation information system builds and cloud transitions, and continue to expand domestic infrastructure."