The Future of Edge Virtualization:

Our Roadmap for the Year Ahead

At StorMagic, we’ve spent years building software that virtualizes compute, storage, and networking at the infrastructure layer. And our virtualization software does exactly what it promises: keeps your applications running, your data where you need it, and your infrastructure in your hands. Here’s how we’re taking that commitment further.

What’s Coming in the Year Ahead

Windows 11 Workload Support

Virtualize your technology stack and desktop-tied edge workloads

Veeam Agentless Backup Integration

Protect VMs without backup agents, built on Veeam’s UHAPI

4K-Native Hardware Support

Clean compatibility with modern storage hardware

Multi-Node Clusters

Scale from 2 to 5 nodes without redesigning your site

PCI Pass-Through

GPU acceleration for AI and computer vision workloads

Edge Control 2.0

On-premises fleet management, full visibility, and a public API

The Edge Virtualization Roadmap

Here are some highlights of what you can expect this year with StorMagic products. These are our intentions, and reflect where we believe the virtualization market is going and what our customers genuinely need.

SvHCI: Expanding Virtualization at the Edge

StorMagic SvHCI, our hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software, is growing its capabilities significantly this year, and a consistent theme across what’s coming is this: doing more with the IT infrastructure you already have.

Windows 11 Workload Support

One of the most common conversations we have with customers goes something like this: “We want to virtualize our technology stack, but we’re tied to Windows desktop operating systems.”

StorMagic SvHCI 2.5 addresses this directly. By adding support for Windows 11 guest operating systems through virtualized Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) and Secure Boot capabilities, we’re enabling customers to move more of their local edge workloads onto resilient HCI infrastructure. That means fewer physical devices per site, longer life from existing hardware, and fewer single points of failure without requiring a hardware refresh to get there.

4K-Native Hardware Support

This one is quieter in nature but important in practice. Modern servers and storage devices are increasingly built on 4K-native architecture, and as hardware vendors, including Dell, move in this direction as a default, we want StorMagic SvHCI deployments to work cleanly on current and next-generation hardware without compatibility surprises late in the buying or installation process.

Given how disruptive hardware delays and procurement friction already are, discovering a compatibility issue after purchase is the last thing any IT team needs.

This update removes that risk.

Veeam Agentless Backup Integration

If you’re evaluating StorMagic SvHCI as a VMware alternative and you use Veeam for backup and recovery, this one’s for you.

One of the most common adoption blockers we hear is: “We love what SvHCI offers, but we’re not changing our backup ecosystem.” That’s a fair concern. Veeam Backup and Replication is trusted by a huge number of StorMagic customers and partners, and it should be.

Our Veeam agentless backup integration, built on Veeam’s UHAPI, means you can protect virtual machines (VMs) without installing and managing individual backup agents inside each one: full VM restore, guest file and folder recovery through Veeam, no agents, less overhead, and more confidence.

For existing customers running StorMagic SvSAN, our virtual SAN solution, alongside VMware, this is the bridge that makes the move to SvHCI a realistic conversation, and one that doesn’t require compromising on the backup infrastructure you’ve already invested in.

Multi-Node Clusters

Two-node StorMagic SvHCI has always been a compelling story: simple, cost-effective, genuinely resilient. But customers have told us clearly that they need a growth path, and one that doesn’t disrupt their existing IT architecture.

Multi-node cluster support, up to five nodes, changes the conversation around StorMagic SvHCI in two important ways.

First, it makes finding realistic alternatives to VMware and VMware replacement more practical for customers who already have three, four, or five nodes in place, so you don’t need to redesign your site around a two-node model or write off hardware investment that still has years of life in it.

Second, it removes the “dead end” concern from the two-node sale. Customers can start simple, stay simple, and add a node when the workload case is there, rather than facing a disruptive and expensive cluster refresh to grow. In an environment where hardware procurement timelines are long and budgets are under pressure, being able to scale incrementally rather than in large capital steps matters.

GPU Support for Future AI Workloads

Technology stacks are changing. Many of the latest innovations require direct access to GPU hardware to perform effectively. Traditional virtualization can create friction here.

PCI pass-through allows physical devices, including GPUs, to be assigned directly to a VM, which means customers can virtualize more of their modern retail edge workloads on StorMagic SvHCI without sacrificing the hardware acceleration those applications depend on, and without needing dedicated standalone hardware for each workload. USB pass-through is also included for peripherals, dongles, and USB-connected devices where direct VM access is needed.

Edge Control 2.0: Fleet Management That Stays in Your Domain

Edge Control 1.4 (the existing SaaS-based offering) continues for customers managing SvSAN. The on-premises path for SvSAN management will be addressed in a future release.

Edge Control is our remote management and monitoring tool for distributed StorMagic environments, and version 2.0 is a significant step forward that reflects exactly where enterprise edge IT is heading.

Take Full Control of Your Data with Edge Control 2.0 On-Premises

Today, managing thousands of distributed sites means trusting a cloud-hosted management platform. For many organizations that’s absolutely fine, but for customers with security policies, data residency requirements, sovereignty concerns, or simply a need to operate in environments with limited or unreliable connectivity, cloud-based management isn’t always the right fit for every site in the estate.

StorMagic Edge Control 2.0 deploys inside your own environment, putting your management platform inside your network and under your control.

Full Fleet Visibility

Edge Control 2.0 focuses on what matters most: full fleet visibility across distributed StorMagic estates, covering status monitoring, inventory, common VM operations including power controls and live migration, and license and firmware management.

It also introduces a public API, giving operations teams and integrators programmatic access to fleet-wide state and VM controls, which opens up integrations with existing operational tooling and reporting infrastructure.

For enterprise IT teams, like retailers for example, managing hundreds or thousands of sites, StorMagic Edge Control enables better visibility, meaning fewer unplanned site visits, faster response to issues, and more productive use of the team you already have. When hardware delays are pushing out project timelines and operational disruption is already a risk, having clear, centralized oversight of your entire estate is hugely beneficial.

The World We’re Building For

Three things in particular are shaping our roadmap.

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Data Sovereignty

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Flexibility

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Economic Reality

Data Sovereignty

Data sovereignty is now non-negotiable at the edge. Regulations like the EU Data Act, applicable from September 2025, give organizations both the right and the responsibility to control where their data lives and how it’s managed.

For organizations running workloads at distributed sites, that means the infrastructure layer at each site matters enormously. This isn’t a compliance checkbox; it’s an operational and strategic reality of server and storage virtualization that StorMagic can support.

And with global instability and the unpredictability of world events, more organizations are waking up to the realization that their data might not be as secure, or accessible as they once thought. In these circumstances, having sovereignty over your data becomes just as important as the high availability required to keep your applications and data online.

Flexibility

The market is hyper-aware that Broadcom’s VMware pricing changes have created a genuine need for credible alternatives. The pressure on IT teams isn’t abstract, and the organizations that continue to feel it most are those managing distributed edge environments where per-site licensing costs compound quickly across dozens, hundreds, or thousands of sites.

Across all of this, the teams responsible for edge infrastructure need software that’s practical, not theoretical: solutions that deploy on standard hardware, run in environments that may be remote or occasionally disconnected, and don’t require a large central team to keep operational. StorMagic provides a flexible alternative for server and storage virtualization, without vendor lock-in.

Data Sovereignty

There’s a harder economic reality sitting underneath all of this, too. Hardware prices are no longer stable or predictable, lead times are longer than expected, and typical hardware refresh cycles that once felt routine are now genuinely difficult to justify. When a quote changes between the time you request it and the time you’re ready to approve it, committing to infrastructure investment becomes a much harder conversation. Finding ways to make your hardware live longer is paramount.

We know that the organizations navigating this best aren’t necessarily the ones with the largest budgets; they’re the ones getting more from the IT infrastructure they already have.

That’s the world StorMagic is building for.

StorMagic is IT Infrastructure You Genuinely Control

StorMagic virtualization software is infrastructure you genuinely control: at the site level, at the hardware level, and at the cost level. We can say with confidence that every item on this roadmap comes from direct conversations with customers, partners, and the markets we serve, and none of it is theoretical. We’re building what edge virtualization infrastructure actually needs, and we’re doing it in the open.

If you’d like to talk through any of this, ask questions about what’s coming, or explore whether StorMagic SvHCI or Edge Control is right for your server and storage virtualization requirements, we’d genuinely love the conversation. Contact our team today.