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Flexit: Cisco Exits the HCI Market – HyperFlex End-of-Life

Cisco’s announcement of HyperFlex’s end-of-life has come as a surprise to many of its customers. Feelings of concern and uncertainty about what the future holds are understandable, even with Cisco proposing alternatives for their soon-to-be-retired solution. In this blog we will explore Cisco HyperFlex’s EOL, detailing what it means for customers, what is being proposed as its direct replacement, and [...]

Infographic: Cisco HyperFlex vs StorMagic SvSAN

Cisco has announced the end-of-life of its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure product. It is a resource-intensive and expensive solution, designed for the datacenter. Its replacement, Nutanix software running on Cisco hardware, is similarly architected. So for SMBs and multi-site organizations deploying in edge computing environments, surely there must be a better alternative? As our infographic shows, that alternative is StorMagic SvSAN. [...]

The End of HyperFlex – Exploring Alternatives for Edge Environments

The announcement of Cisco’s HyperFlex’s end-of-life has stirred up feelings of concern and uncertainty across its customer base. Right now there are a number of vendors promising to be the ‘perfect replacement’ for the HyperFlex. So it comes as no surprise that many are experiencing confusion and anxiety over who will actually deliver on their promises, and who is [...]

StorMagic SvSAN with Cisco UCS E-Series Solution Brief

Eliminating application downtime for distributed enterprise One of the greatest challenges for multi-site organizations is to ensure the uptime and availability of business-critical applications in edge or remote environments where IT infrastructure is limited. This becomes even more challenging as organizations strive to reduce capital and operating expense. This is now achievable through combining the leading, software-defined storage solution [...]

Infographic: Talking Shop with StorMagic

SvSAN provides the most simple and lightweight virtual SAN solution on the market, significantly reducing costs per site. This makes it the perfect storage infrastructure solution for retailers of all sizes. Find out why Sheetz Inc., Autohaus Gruppe Seitz and allnatura chose to deploy SvSAN in their stores. Read more about SvSAN for Retail, or browse our complete library of [...]

Cisco 4000 Integrated Service Routers & StorMagic SvSAN

Enterprises with remote locations face a significant challenge: ensuring continuous uptime of business-critical applications at their distributed sites. Increasing demand for floor space at remote locations coupled with providing robust network connectivity plus data availability only compounds the issue. And the challenge only grows when enterprises seek to reduce capital and operational expenses. Cisco has partnered with StorMagic, a leader [...]

Running SvSAN on the new Cisco ISR 4461 and UCS E-Series

One of the most exciting trends of networking and computing today is the race to the edge. Increasing capabilities for IoT and the need for high availability of back end systems have made backhauling progressively more difficult. The edge requires a solution that can provide high availability and can be managed remotely, especially if the site is difficult to [...]

The New Cisco C4200 Servers and SvSAN

For anyone who may have missed the news, in May Cisco announced the new C4200 Multinode Chassis and C125 M5 server, joining the existing products in the UCS C-Series range. Boasting 128% more core density, 33% more memory and memory bandwidth, and twice the server density of rack servers the new servers take high-intensity compute clusters out of silos and [...]

Simplifying Storage for Edge Computing Environments

What does a simple, lightweight and low cost solution designed for edge computing actually look like? Hosted jointly by Cisco and StorMagic There’s no point denying it - the edge computing phenomenon is on the rise. But why? There is growing pressure on edge sites such as branch offices, remote installations and retail stores to generate and [...]

StorMagic SvSAN with Cisco UCS C-Series Solution Brief

Eliminating application downtime for distributed enterprise One of the greatest challenges of multi-site organizations is to ensure the uptime and availability of business critical applications in lean IT environments. This becomes even more challenging as organizations strive to reduce capital and operating expense. This is now achievable through combining the leading, software-defined storage solution from StorMagic with the latest [...]

Hyperconverged IT for Remote Locations

A webinar for the retail and hospitality sectors Deploying and supporting traditional infrastructure for remote offices, retail stores, and hospitality sites can be challenging. Virtualization and high availability can prove complex and costly, often leaving the IT team no choice but to cut corners and send valuable IT resources into the field with short notice. It doesn’t have to [...]