GigaOm’s Radar for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Edge Deployments report is out. The 2023 paper goes in-depth about the challenges decision-makers are facing presently at the edge, which vendors (including StorMagic) occupy the HCI space, and how their solutions can help companies tackle its many challenges.
GigaOm describes edge deployments as being “among the most dispersed HCI environments, with small clusters at many locations, and without staff readily available”.
In the report, the analyst firm delves into the differentiation between the “near edge” and the “far edge”, and which vendors offer solutions of greatest benefit to customers operating in these locations. Due to the facilities varying so greatly from location to location, there is much variety among the solutions on offer in this space.
A near-edge location is classified by GigaOm as a datacenter that’s not on-premises and at times in colocation or telco datacenters spread around the country or world. Far-edge locations are characterized as dependent on the function and could be in trucks, retail stores, or oil exploration platforms. Solutions catering to both near-edge and far-edge locations include hardware capable of operating outside of the pristine environment of the traditional datacenter. They’re built to thrive in harsh environments where low power, limited space, limited cooling, and everyday dirt and grime are the standard, and typically need customized applications to run on which are often deployed in containers.
Why do we believe companies choose StorMagic?
As one of the few solutions built specifically for the edge, StorMagic thrives in harsh environments and is ideal for SMB use cases. Partnering with some of the most trusted cloud providers and hardware manufacturers like HPE and Lenovo, and with thousands of customers across all industries StorMagic has built a product with simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility at its core.
Deployed in most instances with VMware ESXi, StorMagic SvSAN also supports the Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM hypervisors and is approved for use and offered preinstalled on HPE and Lenovo servers. Capable of running on practically any x86 hardware and in a two-node configuration, it’s cost-effective and requires minimal resources. Additional cloud services can also be utilized to both ease deployment & improve the user experience.
Other key features StorMagic SvSAN offers include:
- The ability for users to manage thousands of sites from a single console on the platform
- A cloud-based witness service to further ease the deployment of large, distributed infrastructures
- A two-node, synchronous mirrored configuration for high availability,
- A shared witness (usually a virtual machine in a central datacenter) to prevent split-brain during network failures
- The ability to support a third mirror for maintaining high availability during maintenance or after an initial failure.
Investing heavily in security over time, StorMagic SvSAN can be run alongside StorMagic SvKMS, a product specifically for encryption key management, or with third-party KMS solutions to keep customers’ sensitive data secure.
StorMagic SvSAN is available on either a perpetual license with support or on a subscription based on capacity. Additional options for improved security, performance and other services are also available.
The GigaOm Radar for Hyperconverged Infrastructure can be accessed here. To learn more about what SvSAN offers for organizations at the edge, download our introductory product guide for a high-level explanation of the product, and its use cases and benefits. It is the perfect document for an initial investigation into SvSAN, regardless of your technical experience.
