This DCIG Competitive Intelligence Report examines the differences between VMware vSAN and StorMagic SvSAN, offering a comparison of the two solutions and an assessment on their capability for edge computing use cases.
StorMagic SvSAN keeps data always available and eliminates downtime. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud keeps data protected and recoverable. Service providers can now offer a simple, flexible, reliable hyperconverged storage solution that requires only two servers for high availability along with class-leading backup and recovery. Easily expand your offerings with a High Availability + Data Protection solution from StorMagic and [...]
Did you know that most disasters are localized to a specific room, building, or campus? Similarly, the majority of maintenance and repairs are completed in a single location too. These more frequent events often create significant disruption for IT operations. Luckily, this disruption can be reduced or eliminated through the use of stretch clusters. Join us for an in-depth navigation [...]
Today’s organizations are generating more data at the edge than ever before, having to come up with new, creative ways to process and manage it in a cost-effective, efficient manner. Government agencies are no exception to this trend. However, when it comes to data storage, they do have unique requirements in terms of compliance and regulations, accessibility, and IT support. [...]
What if your edge-to-cloud solution could keep your company’s data safe from ransomware attacks, scale with you as you do, and didn’t cost a small fortune to deploy?… Coming together again, StorMagic and HPE have created another groundbreaking joint solution that brings together the best of both edge and cloud storage and achieves exactly that. StorMagic’s Bruce Kornfeld and [...]
StorMagic SvSAN is now validated with HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery, and HPE StoreOnce. This allows organizations to build solutions that deliver data protection and high availability at the edge and beyond, and overcome many of the common challenges with backup and recovery of data, especially in remote environments. Our infographic below shows the highlights of this joint HPE [...]
Digital transformation is underway across almost every industry, regardless of organization size. Some adopted early and are seeing the benefits, including the uses of new technologies and myriad of data and insights provided. Others are earlier in the process, with some implementations in place and others on the horizon. Much of the digital transformation starts at the edge, where [...]
What is the right number of nodes for software-defined storage server clusters? Is a single node enough to create a reliable and robust solution or is it better to have more? In this blog we’ll examine the use cases for one, two, and three-node software-defined storage solutions, their benefits, and their drawbacks. The Loneliest Number – Why is a single-node [...]
Is your boss a little out of date when it comes to current virtual storage technology trends? Do they hate spending money on data storage, yet expect a flawless solution with zero unplanned downtime?... And worse still, do they think a monolithic physical SAN is the best storage option to help your organization achieve its data storage goals? If so, [...]
As the demands for enterprise storage continue to expand and the digital landscape shifts, so too does the need for innovative solutions that streamline operations, enhance data management, and improve overall efficiency. The technology of choice that’s emerged as a game changer in the digital storage space is the virtual storage appliance (sometimes referred to as VSA) which has dominated [...]
Regional or nationwide retail organizations have hundreds or even thousands of stores. With each store reliant on applications and services to stay open, that’s a lot of data and IT infrastructure to manage and maintain. StorMagic SvSAN is the chosen solution of some of the United States’ largest retailers, to keep systems online and stores open. In this infographic we [...]
How does StorMagic SvSAN address the challenges faced by retail businesses around IT infrastructure and in-store modernization? Retailers are adopting many new technologies and are faced with increasing demands on computing power, and capacity for data storage. There is therefore a need for a lightweight solution that can provide retail organizations with the simplicity, flexibility and reliability to keep data [...]
For this infographic, we spoke with some of the retail organizations using StorMagic SvSAN to see what they thought of the software, and how it helps them with the modernization of their retail operations. Read quotes from Sheetz Inc., Giant Eagle, Autohaus Gruppe Seitz and allnatura, and see how regardless of the size or type of the business, and the [...]
What is the future of retail technology? And amongst all the noise and hype, which technologies should retail IT leaders be focused on? In this retail infographic, we showcase some of those which look most promising for future investment, categorized into broad sections like infrastructure, and analytics. With the modernization of the retail store, in-store IT infrastructure needs to modernize [...]
Over the years, mindsets towards onsite IT have changed drastically — particularly when it comes to retail store infrastructure. With a focus on virtualizing their environments and creating more efficient retail data storage, many retailers are moving away from traditional storage infrastructure in favor of solutions that offer de-centralized application control, with centralized management systems. With this in mind, it’s [...]
StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage that eliminates downtime, delivering cost-effective high availability with only two servers. SvSAN is designed to be very simple to install and manage, and the technology is based on software-defined storage that eliminates the need for physical SANs. SvSAN is installed as a virtual storage appliance (VSA) on top of a hypervisor, and creates highly [...]
For modern retailers, managing a growing brand is no simple task. While their main goals may be to produce quality products, provide excellent customer service, and work towards growing profits, several other key factors are coming into play as technology advances. Maintaining an online presence through things like social media, virtual shopping, and digital advertising is now just as defining [...]
For small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), the rapid shift of today’s digital landscape has never been more challenging. But as technology continues to push forward rapidly, so must the businesses using it. Today, companies need to consistently keep up with change or risk no longer being able to provide the services needed to remain relevant in this hyper-competitive world – [...]
What is Edge Computing? Edge computing is a term used to describe decentralized IT infrastructure. In an edge computing environment, applications, computation, and data storage are all carried out near the source of the data (i.e. at the “network edge”), as opposed to in the cloud or at an offsite datacenter. By processing data locally and minimizing the distance [...]
As cities become smarter, vehicles become autonomous, and technology permeates every aspect of our lives, enterprise-generated data continues to migrate away from the traditional datacenter to distributed sites, also known as the network edge. According to Gartner research, roughly 10% of enterprise-generated data is created and processed at the edge, with this number predicted to jump to 75% by 20251 [...]
The amount, and continued growth, of data in healthcare is profound and promising. The capabilities associated with this data generation are part of the digital transformation of healthcare. New and expanded uses of technologies, such as AI, wearables, and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) creates more data from more places and more devices, all with the potential to [...]
Let’s face it. Data loss and corruption are issues no successful organization can tolerate, especially where unplanned downtime and maintenance are concerned. Many solutions on the market offer protection through overprovisioned architecture, forcing users to deploy 4 or even 5 servers per highly available cluster to tolerate a failure and still maintain high availability. This can put a massive [...]
Business Challenge: WST Präzisionstechnik GmbH is a leading manufacturer of milled and turned parts and supplies in the German market. It specializes in the production of synchronous machining tools, producing 25 million parts in 1,500 custom designs annually. WST previously used DataCore SANsymphony to store application data from key IT sources, including its CRM, SQL databases, file services, telecommunication [...]
Business Challenge: Witholz is a modern production and service company, specializing in timber construction, and the production of wooden beams. The manufacturer delivers everything from one-off bespoke orders to mass produced wood, and a variety of related joinery components, all from a single source. Witholz GmbH previously used a physical SAN, an HPE MSA 2040 high-performance storage array, for [...]
Industrial IoT is a natural extension of historical process control systems that have dominated factory floors for decades. In recent years, the increase in sensors and devices to monitor machinery and outputs has meant manufacturers are now moving from monitoring individual things, to monitoring entire processes from one screen. The result is the invention of industrial IoT as a catch-all [...]
IT is critical to a law firm and downtime is not an option. As well as lost productivity and revenue, downtime can also lead to loss of data, which can be difficult to recover. Very private personal data needs to be accessible and available at all times, for cases that are often time-sensitive. IT applications and systems in the legal [...]
There is much talk about the digital transformation of manufacturing – Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Factories, etc. – and rightfully so. These transitions and transformations are, and will be, having major implications for manufacturers of all types and sizes. At the beginning, end, and throughout these changes and implementations there is one common denominator – data, and its [...]
Virtually all organizations are now completely reliant on IT for everyday operations, and as such the availability and uptime of these systems is critically important. Loss of service equates to loss of productivity which, depending on the severity, can have a potentially huge impact. This is important as IT shifts from the datacenter to include distributed, edge computing at [...]
IoT is on the Rise… The Internet of Things (IoT) is a hot topic right now, experiencing dramatic growth, driven by the increased use of connected devices, or endpoints. These devices vary from sensors, actuators, and valves in factories, to home automation control systems (Nest, Apple HomeKit, Philips Hue), wearable fitness trackers (Fitbit, Garmin), smartphones, and even traffic and transport [...]
As manufacturers modernize their operations, it is crucial that they find new ways to address the unique and ever-present challenges of running at the edge. The rapid development of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT), which requires high levels of reliability, performance, and cost efficiency, has led to edge computing in manufacturing growing in importance over the past [...]
About Eugen Forschner GmbH Eugen Forschner GmbH develops and designs technology for the automotive industries, prepares it for series production and makes it available worldwide. It is a manufacturer of many products, including technology for high voltage systems, cabling systems and scr-systems. Business Challenge: Forschner previously used a physical SAN solution, the HPE MSA, a high performance storage array [...]
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Two’s company, but three’s a crowd at the edge Edge sites and small datacenters are typically budget and resource-constrained - but they still need highly available applications to run their operations effectively. In these instances, system size does matter. If each site uses 2-node instead of 3-node architecture (i.e. two servers instead of three), massive cost and management [...]
Best practices for protecting business data and avoiding downtime Here we are in the 21st Century where an ‘always-on’ culture and ‘highly-available-everything’ infrastructure makes us all subscribe to the notion that we are protected and ready for anything. But are we? It’s not possible to mitigate every disaster, indeed cost and time constraints often force us to focus on [...]
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Downtime, cost, and performance are massively important factors for companies today when it comes to choosing IT infrastructure and solutions. Thanks to physical SANs and legacy IT hardware filling up floor space, adding complexity, and cutting heavily into department budgets, many organizations have switched to a virtualized environment. Doing so benefits users greatly by enabling the hyperconvergence of compute, networking [...]
When implementing virtualized IT infrastructure, a hypervisor is commonly used to create and run virtual machines (VMs). A hypervisor is a piece of software that helps divide and allocate resources on various pieces of hardware. It enables multiple operating systems to run on a single host, simultaneously. While there are many benefits to implementing a hypervisor within your organization’s [...]
Modern organizations rely heavily on technology to carry out everyday operations. From order processing, to managing inventory, to communication, and administrative work, technology is a vital component to today’s businesses, and they depend on the functionality of their IT systems to keep them up and running. When technologies fail or are down for repair, organizations are left to deal with [...]
High availability (HA) is vital to protecting sensitive data, and an important part of key management. Key management is central to data encryption – encryption keys are like the keys to your house, and act to protect your valuables (the encrypted data). But, much like standard house keys, key management has a number of potential difficulties that can affect the [...]
Everyone has made a trip to the pharmacy at some point in their lives. But have you ever stopped to think about the technologies pharmacies utilize and how much data they’re generating, sharing, and storing on a daily basis? There are many steps that go into the process of getting the right medication into the hands of the right patient, [...]
Ecommerce has become a critical pillar of the global economy. Prior to the current pandemic, 2 billion people were buying from over 7 million online businesses according to etailinsights. As COVID-19 has progressed, brick-and-mortar businesses around the globe have adopted many new precautions and regulations to keep their customers safe. This includes transitioning to primarily, if not exclusively, selling their [...]
Businesses today depend heavily on their IT systems to keep everyday operations up and running. Many organizations require minimal to zero disruption to applications and services, in order to maintain productivity and profitability. However, eliminating IT downtime entirely and achieving true high availability is often easier said than done. What is Fault Tolerance? Fault Tolerance is a property that enables [...]
What is High Availability? High Availability (HA) refers to a system’s ability to ensure uninterrupted operation and accessibility, typically measured as a percentage of uptime. Decreased downtime, the elimination of single points of failure, and replication and distribution of data across multiple locations, are all contributing factors that come together to create a high availability architecture. Availability is the [...]
Many of today’s organizations are modernizing their traditional IT infrastructure, in an effort to save money, improve performance, and reduce downtime. They are taking steps to virtualize their environments by replacing their clunky, physical IT equipment, with virtualized systems that enable the hyperconvergence of compute, networking, and storage resources. Storage virtualization enables the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage [...]
El acuerdo de distribución añade soluciones de SAN virtual y ciberseguridad a la cartera de productos de General Procurement, y expande la presencia de StorMagic en México. BRISTOL, Inglaterra – 28 Mayo, 2020 – StorMagic®, cuya misión es simplificar el almacenamiento y la seguridad en soluciones que van desde el Edge Computing hasta el Core Datacenter, anunció hoy un nuevo [...]
Business Challenge RWE Renewables is the newest subsidiary of the RWE Group, a German-based multinational energy company, and is one of the world leaders in renewables. With around 3,500 employees, it is one of the world’s largest generators of offshore wind power, and is Europe’s third largest for all renewable energy. As such, the RWE Renewables IT team is [...]
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 [...]
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 large retailers who have hundreds or thousands of individual store locations. Find out why a leading US home improvement retailer and a European supermarket chain both chose to deploy SvSAN in all of [...]
Distribution Agreement Adds Virtual SAN and Security Software Solutions to General Procurement’s Portfolio and Expands StorMagic’s Presence in Mexico BRISTOL, England – 28 May, 2020 – StorMagic®, simplifying storage and security from the edge to the core, announced today a new distribution agreement with General Procurement, Inc., who selected StorMagic SvSAN and SvKMS as its first virtual SAN and key [...]
BRISTOL, England – 19 May, 2020 – StorMagic®, simplifying storage and security from the edge to the core, announced today that it has appointed Ian Davies as chief financial officer (CFO), effective immediately. As CFO, Davies will manage StorMagic’s financial, human resource and business support operations, as the company continues to quickly expand following its recent entry into the security [...]
Federal and Government Customers can Easily Procure Simple, Highly Available Hyperconverged Solutions for less than $10,000 BRISTOL, England – 24 March, 2020 – StorMagic®, simplifying storage at the edge, announced today a new partnership with Insight Public Sector (IPS), the federal division of Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT), the global integrator of Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™ for organizations of all sizes. [...]
Last week, DCIG published a new Competitive Intelligence Report, comparing StorMagic SvSAN and Scale Computing’s HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure. The report, titled “A Comparison of How StorMagic SvSAN and Scale Computing Deliver on Enterprise Edge Computing Storage Requirements,” provides side-by-side analysis of the two solutions and detailed evaluation of their differences. Like StorMagic, Scale Computing’s HC3 appliances have been designed to [...]
StorMagic Recognized for Delivering High Availability at the Lowest Cost for Dozens, Hundreds or Thousands of Sites BRISTOL, England–12 February 2020– StorMagic®, simplifying storage at the edge, announced today the availability of a new third-party Competitive Intelligence Report from DCIG, LLC titled, “A Comparison of How StorMagic SvSAN and Scale Computing Deliver on Enterprise Edge Computing Storage Requirements.” The research [...]
Lightweight, Simplified Storage Enables Fast Deployment across Hundreds of Edge Sites BRISTOL, England – 27 January, 2020 – StorMagic®, simplifying storage at the edge, announced today that Sheetz, one of America's fastest growing family-owned and operated convenience retailers for more than 67 years, is standardizing on StorMagic SvSAN software to virtualize and add high availability at hundreds of its convenience [...]
Read the full Sheetz Inc. case study here.
In a competitive and ever-evolving air transportation industry, investment in IT infrastructure is mission critical.
StorMagic adds resources in Singapore and Mexico City to Support Global Edge Adoption BRISTOL, England –26 November, 2019– StorMagic®, simplifying storage at the edge, announced today its expansion into the Asia Pacific (APAC) and Latin American (LATAM) regions. Staffing in APAC and LATAM lets StorMagic support and service existing and future customers who are managing growing data sets at small [...]
Joint Customers Gain Flexibility, Reliability, Performance and Lowered TCOBRISTOL, England –18 November, 2019 – StorMagic®, simplifying storage at the edge, announced today that it has validated SvSAN with HPE DL325 and DL360 ProLiant Gen10 rack servers. StorMagic conducted extensive testing on HPE DL servers running its virtual SAN product, SvSAN with both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. Results show [...]
Hyperconverged Solution Delivers a New Level of Simplicity to European Customers at the Lowest CostBRISTOL, England – 30 October, 2019– StorMagic®, simplifying storage at the edge, announced today that it has signed a Pan-European reseller agreement with Bechtle Logistik & Service GmbH. SvSAN is now available for purchase by small- to medium-sized business (SMB) and large enterprise customers with remote [...]
StorMagic SvSAN Commended for Simplicity, Flexibility and Low Cost in Edge Environments BRISTOL, England–15 October, 2019– StorMagic®, simplifying storage at the edge, announced today the availability of a new third-party Competitive Intelligence Report- Executive Edition from DCIG, LLC titled, “A Comparison of How StorMagic SvSAN and VMware vSAN Deliver on Enterprise Edge Computing and Storage Requirements.” The report’s findings guide [...]