White Papers

The white paper explores everything you need to know about the VM snapshots feature within StorMagic SvHCI, our hyperconverged infrastructure software.

The Enterprise Strategy Group analyst paper examines the criticality of IT at the edge and the challenges it poses.

An in-depth analysis of how lightweight hyperconverged infrastructure can lower TCO and reshape your IT.

Binary Testing puts SvSAN and Edge Control through their paces, running tests on ESXi 8 for deployment, management, and high availability. Read the full review for their conclusions.

Explore the ways in which SvHCI can be leveraged to deliver full-stack hyperconverged infrastructure on one or two nodes at each location.

Discover what’s driving demand for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software. See market analyst insights and recommendations for 2025.

DCIG report evaluates 15 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software offerings to shortlist the best alternatives to VMware vSphere.

A comparison of the two hyperconverged storage solutions and an assessment on their capability for SMB and edge computing use cases.

Combining the best in class solutions of Microsoft Server 2022 & StorMagic SvSAN, this paper provides solutions for common edge site IT challenges.

A comparison of how StorMagic SvSAN & Microsoft Azure Stack HCI deliver on SMB & edge computing storage requirements. Read the full report from DCIG.

The solution overview for healthcare facilities & organizations provides an explanation of how SvSAN can be leveraged to provide the HA shared storage.

SvSAN is a proven storage infrastructure solution for retail and branch sites. Learn more in our new SvSAN for Retail brochure.

Delving deep into the HCI market, DCIG’s 2023 paper, the DCIG Top 5 HCI Software Report highlights top-performing vendors in this space.

Manufacturers can learn how SvSAN helps them with specific use cases & challenges. The document includes multiple case studies as examples.

To ensure high availability in an IT system, it is important to build the required levels of resiliency & redundancy into the architecture from end to end.

This white paper contains disaster recovery best practices for protecting business data & utilizing backup & replication tools to drive business continuity.

This SvSAN document provides a high level explanation of the product, its use cases & benefits, without digging into technical specifications or requirements

The analyst report compares Dell PowerEdge VRTX & StorMagic SvSAN as VRTX approached end of life. VRTX users should prepare by exploring VRTX alternatives.

While there's no perfect security technology that prevents every attack, there are new secure computing methods where trust is built into the architecture

Hyperconverged infrastructure & containers can provide the solution for organizations looking to deploy applications faster & more economically at the edge

This white paper provides guidance for IT leaders looking to implement encryption key management best practices in their organization.

The GigaOm Radar Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge is available from the StorMagic website.

This white paper explains how the adoption of key management that integrates with any environment is the lynchpin of proper data protection.

What should you do to improve cloud data security? This white paper talks through six different technology trends that can do just that.

This white paper explains how to overcome the complex issues around managing encryption keys by consolidating them into one key manager - StorMagic SvKMS.

Enable VMware Fault Tolerance at edge and remote locations without expensive networking. Find out how in this white paper from StorMagic.

As the sophistication & numbers of cyber attacks increases, so does the importance of enterprise key management. Read a white paper from analyst firm ESG.

This analyst report compares Scale Computing HC3 & StorMagic SvSAN. How do they perform in enterprise edge computing and ROBO environments? Find out here.

StorMagic SvSAN has been designed to tailored an organization’s specific needs the time of deployment providing a two-node highly available storage solution.

StorMagic SvSAN has the capability to provide highly available shared storage for multi-node clusters. Learn more with this white paper.

StorMagic SvSAN's witness tolerates very low bandwidth and latency while providing highly available storage across two nodes. Learn more in this white paper

This white paper details StorMagic SvSAN's stretch clusters feature, which allows nodes to be placed in separate locations, up to 1,000 km apart

Get up to speed with deployment and configuration options available for SvSAN with this white paper. Download the StorMagic SvSAN Technical Overview.

This white paper outlines the data encryption best practices you should follow if you are encrypting data in edge computing environments.

How do you know if your storage performance is up to scratch? Will a new solution be able to support your existing workloads? This white paper explains all.

This white paper examines six dynamics for you to consider when choosing between preconfigured appliances or the build your own approach

This white paper defines what is meant by the performance gap, what can be done to reduce it and how StorMagic is addressing the issue

Explores how the combination of industry-standard servers and software-defined storage can enable the creation of an advanced storage array.

Download to learn how to utilize VMware vSphere Replication in conjunction with StorMagic SvSAN to deliver a low-cost remote site storage infrastructure.

This white paper discusses the challenges and pain points common in remote site environments, and how StorMagic SvSAN can help to resolve these challenges.

StorMagic’s virtual storage appliance (VSA), SvSAN complements Storage Spaces, enabling customers to provide a robust shared storage solution

Bridging the Divide of Distributed IT | Ensuring branch office uptime is one of the highest priorities for enterprise IT.

Deploying solid-state disk (SSD) technology in enterprise environments as primary storage has gained a lot of interest in recent years

Download this white paper to learn about the SvSAN Volume Migration feature and see how it addresses these challenges and simplifies storage migrations.

Hyperconverged infrastructure combines compute, storage, networking and a hypervisor into a single entity. Increased compute and storage capacity.