Why hyper-converged gear needs to go the extra file: Merging blocks and filers to break out of the niche

And how might this be done?

Backgrounder Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is a popular way to deal with complex server, SAN storage, and virtualization requirements with integrated, scale-out nodes that converge server compute, storage, and hypervisor technology in all-in-one clusterable elements."