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ESG Showcase: Deploying a Simple, Secure, Cost-effective Edge With StorMagic HCI
The Enterprise Strategy Group analyst paper examines the criticality of IT at the edge and the challenges it poses.
March 26, 2025
Achieving Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in Enterprise Edge IT
An in-depth analysis of how lightweight hyperconverged infrastructure can lower TCO and reshape your IT.
January 6, 2025
Lab Testing & Review of SvSAN 6.3 & Edge Control
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.
December 12, 2024
StorMagic SvHCI Technical Overview
Explore the ways in which SvHCI can be leveraged to deliver full-stack hyperconverged infrastructure on one or two nodes at each location.
December 10, 2024
Equipping Modern IT Infrastructure Strategies with StorMagic SvHCI for Enterprise Edge and SMBs
Discover what’s driving demand for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software. See market analyst insights and recommendations for 2025.
December 10, 2024
2024-25 DCIG Top 5 VMware vSphere Alternatives SMB/Edge Edition
DCIG report evaluates 15 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software offerings to shortlist the best alternatives to VMware vSphere.
August 15, 2024
VMware vSAN vs StorMagic SvSAN – Competitive Intelligence Report
A comparison of the two hyperconverged storage solutions and an assessment on their capability for SMB and edge computing use cases.
May 14, 2024
Solving Edge Infrastructure Challenges with Microsoft Server 2022 & SvSAN
Combining the best in class solutions of Microsoft Server 2022 & StorMagic SvSAN, this paper provides solutions for common edge site IT challenges.
May 9, 2024
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI vs StorMagic SvSAN – Competitive Intelligence Report
A comparison of how StorMagic SvSAN & Microsoft Azure Stack HCI deliver on SMB & edge computing storage requirements. Read the full report from DCIG.
April 2, 2024
SvSAN for Healthcare – Solution Overview
The solution overview for healthcare facilities & organizations provides an explanation of how SvSAN can be leveraged to provide the HA shared storage.
June 28, 2023
SvSAN for Retail – Solution Overview
SvSAN is a proven storage infrastructure solution for retail and branch sites. Learn more in our new SvSAN for Retail brochure.
May 15, 2023
DCIG Top 5 Rising Vendors for HCI Software Solutions
Delving deep into the HCI market, DCIG’s 2023 paper, the DCIG Top 5 HCI Software Report highlights top-performing vendors in this space.
May 11, 2023
SvSAN for Manufacturing – Solution Overview
Manufacturers can learn how SvSAN helps them with specific use cases & challenges. The document includes multiple case studies as examples.
April 12, 2023
High Availability: Building a Highly Available Two Node Configuration
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.
April 3, 2023
Disaster Recovery – Reducing Risk and Ensuring Business Continuity
This white paper contains disaster recovery best practices for protecting business data & utilizing backup & replication tools to drive business continuity.
June 27, 2022
Product Introduction to SvSAN
This SvSAN document provides a high level explanation of the product, its use cases & benefits, without digging into technical specifications or requirements
May 6, 2022
DCIG White Paper: Comparing Dell PowerEdge VRTX and StorMagic SvSAN
The analyst report compares Dell PowerEdge VRTX & StorMagic SvSAN as VRTX approached end of life. VRTX users should prepare by exploring VRTX alternatives.
September 2, 2021
Building Secure Environments Through Trusted Computing
While there's no perfect security technology that prevents every attack, there are new secure computing methods where trust is built into the architecture
June 16, 2021
Simple Storage for Containers at the Edge
Hyperconverged infrastructure & containers can provide the solution for organizations looking to deploy applications faster & more economically at the edge
June 9, 2021
Encryption Key Management Best Practices for Advanced Data Protection
This white paper provides guidance for IT leaders looking to implement encryption key management best practices in their organization.
January 22, 2021
GigaOm Radar Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge
The GigaOm Radar Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge is available from the StorMagic website.
January 14, 2021
Building Powerful Data Security Through Common Encryption Key Integrations
This white paper explains how the adoption of key management that integrates with any environment is the lynchpin of proper data protection.
December 16, 2020
6 Technology Trends That Improve Data Security for any Cloud
What should you do to improve cloud data security? This white paper talks through six different technology trends that can do just that.
November 23, 2020
Consolidating Encryption Key Management with StorMagic SvKMS
This white paper explains how to overcome the complex issues around managing encryption keys by consolidating them into one key manager - StorMagic SvKMS.
September 10, 2020
Using VMware Fault Tolerance with StorMagic SvSAN
Enable VMware Fault Tolerance at edge and remote locations without expensive networking. Find out how in this white paper from StorMagic.
June 17, 2020
Beyond Data Encryption – The Need for an Enterprise Key Management System
As the sophistication & numbers of cyber attacks increases, so does the importance of enterprise key management. Read a white paper from analyst firm ESG.
April 16, 2020
Scale Computing HC3 vs StorMagic SvSAN – a Competitive Intelligence Report
This analyst report compares Scale Computing HC3 & StorMagic SvSAN. How do they perform in enterprise edge computing and ROBO environments? Find out here.
February 12, 2020
Flexibility for the Future – Scaling with StorMagic SvSAN
StorMagic SvSAN has been designed to tailored an organization’s specific needs the time of deployment providing a two-node highly available storage solution.
January 22, 2019
StorMagic SvSAN Multi-Node Clusters
StorMagic SvSAN has the capability to provide highly available shared storage for multi-node clusters. Learn more with this white paper.
November 16, 2018
Explaining the StorMagic SvSAN Witness
StorMagic SvSAN's witness tolerates very low bandwidth and latency while providing highly available storage across two nodes. Learn more in this white paper
August 29, 2018
Creating Stretch Clusters With StorMagic SvSAN
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
August 29, 2018
StorMagic SvSAN Technical Overview
Get up to speed with deployment and configuration options available for SvSAN with this white paper. Download the StorMagic SvSAN Technical Overview.
April 30, 2018
Data Encryption Best Practices for Edge Environments
This white paper outlines the data encryption best practices you should follow if you are encrypting data in edge computing environments.
April 4, 2018
Understanding & Implementing Storage Performance Analysis
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.
February 19, 2018
Build Your Own vs. Appliance – A Comparison of HCI Deployment
This white paper examines six dynamics for you to consider when choosing between preconfigured appliances or the build your own approach
November 1, 2017
Closing the Performance Gap – SvSAN’s Caching Features
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
October 13, 2017
Build Your Own Server SAN
Explores how the combination of industry-standard servers and software-defined storage can enable the creation of an advanced storage array.
February 28, 2017
StorMagic SvSAN with VMware vSphere Replication
Download to learn how to utilize VMware vSphere Replication in conjunction with StorMagic SvSAN to deliver a low-cost remote site storage infrastructure.
September 24, 2015
Solving Remote Site IT Challenges with StorMagic SvSAN
This white paper discusses the challenges and pain points common in remote site environments, and how StorMagic SvSAN can help to resolve these challenges.
June 15, 2015
SvSAN & Microsoft Storage Spaces
StorMagic’s virtual storage appliance (VSA), SvSAN complements Storage Spaces, enabling customers to provide a robust shared storage solution
January 21, 2015
Centralized vs. Decentralized Storage: Bridging the Divide of Distributed IT
Bridging the Divide of Distributed IT | Ensuring branch office uptime is one of the highest priorities for enterprise IT.
January 21, 2015
Solid-State Disks for the Distributed Enterprise
Deploying solid-state disk (SSD) technology in enterprise environments as primary storage has gained a lot of interest in recent years
January 21, 2015
StorMagic SvSAN Volume Migration Feature
Download this white paper to learn about the SvSAN Volume Migration feature and see how it addresses these challenges and simplifies storage migrations.
January 21, 2015
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Suitability for the Distributed Enterprise
Hyperconverged infrastructure combines compute, storage, networking and a hypervisor into a single entity. Increased compute and storage capacity.
January 21, 2015