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StorMagic has been Included in IDC’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure at the Edge Report

The IDC Perspective report, Hyperconverged Infrastructure Use Will Continue to Grow in Edge Environments (doc #US46034120, December 2022), on hyperconverged infrastructure at the edge is out, delving into the marketplace and what businesses looking to deploy this technology at their own edge sites should be looking for in their chosen vendors’ offerings. Growing fast, hyperconverged infrastructure can help businesses tackle [...]

Infographic: Hyperconverged Infrastructure at the Edge

The use of hyperconverged infrastructure at the edge is increasing. While typically seen in datacenter environments, hyperconverged infrastructure is now viewed as a viable solution to ensure that data can be gathered, stored and processed all at the edge of the enterprise. As shown in our infographic below, analyst firm IDC have conducted a detailed market analysis, examining hyperconverged vendors [...]

Are You Edge? Edge Computing Use Cases Explained

Edge computing is one of the biggest IT trends of recent times. Companies of all sizes are focusing and investing heavily in it, as more data than ever is recorded and stored at an increasing number of locations and endpoints. But what exactly does “edge” mean, and what some typical use cases? It feels like the definition keeps on changing, [...]

The Future of Data Protection at the Edge

There are a plethora of ways in which organizations can protect their business-critical data at the edge. Whether that’s simply keeping the data highly available and active, or preventing it from being accessed or stolen – the options are numerous and all can be combined to give an organization the security and redundancy in their infrastructure to keep business operations [...]

Navigating the Software-Defined Storage Market

Today, IT professionals have many choices on how to solve server, storage, and networking requirements in the datacenter, and at the edge. Hyperconverged (HCI) appliances and software-defined storage (SDS) solutions have emerged as an excellent alternative to traditional three-tiered architecture. In this blog, we’ll be giving you a background on the software-defined storage market and technologies available from vendors. We’ll [...]

From Server Virtualization to Software-Defined Storage Solutions

Software-defined storage (SDS) solutions have come a long way in recent times and branched into areas that were previously thought impossible. IT best practice has always been about eliminating single points of failure. Back in the late 20th century, companies ran their software, applications and services on bare-metal servers which only had enough CPU to run one application at a [...]

The Future of Hardware vs Software RAID at the Edge

The need for RAID at the edge RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is just one critically important form of data protection and has been a key component in disk drive configurations since the 1980s. It enables users to easily distribute data from any application across multiple physical storage devices, so that if one device fails, the applications keep [...]

Infographic: A RAID Comparison for the Edge

Protecting data at the edge with RAID is a common assignment for IT administrators at most organizations. But realistically, which type of RAID is best for edge environments? Take a look through our RAID comparison infographic below to learn about the options and the pros and cons of each. Then, if you want more, you can check out our RAID [...]

The 2023 GigaOm Radar report is out, featuring StorMagic

GigaOm’s Radar for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Edge Deployments report is out. The 2023 paper goes in-depth about the challenges decision-makers are facing presently at the edge, which vendors (including StorMagic) occupy the HCI space, and how their solutions can help companies tackle its many challenges. GigaOm describes edge deployments as being “among the most dispersed HCI environments, with small clusters at [...]

Infographic: Gartner® Market Guide for Edge Computing

The latest Market Guide for Edge Computing has been released by Gartner. It’s an invaluable resource for IT leaders and decision makers looking to understand the edge computing market landscape, with guidance and best practice to help organizations navigate towards the most optimal solutions for their specific use case. As a taster of the full report, our infographic below dives [...]

2022 Gartner® Edge Computing Market Guide – Guidance for IT Leaders

At the beginning of October, Gartner published their latest Market Guide to help organizations searching for edge solutions to find those that best fit their needs. The report outlines the many facets of edge computing, describing what customers can expect from the edge market now, in the short term, and in the future as the market matures.The key points the [...]

An All-In-One Edge Solution: HPE MicroServer & StorMagic SvSAN

The ability to process important information in real-time while keeping essential applications highly available and disaster-proof is a common challenge experienced by organizations managing multiple edge sites. So HPE and StorMagic have come together again to bring customers their latest joint solution: SvSAN with the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus. Powerful, edge-ready and edge-optimized, this combination solution was designed with [...]

StorMagic SvSAN Named Best Data Storage Solution in Seventh Annual Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Program

StorMagic SvSAN Simplifies Edge Data Storage and Ensures 100 Percent Uptime BRISTOL, England — 29 November, 2022 — StorMagic®, solving the world’s edge data problems, today announced that its SvSAN software solution was named the winner of the Best Data Storage Solution category in the seventh annual BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami) Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. SvSAN is a virtual SAN [...]

StorMagic SvSAN with HPE ProLiant MicroServer Solution Brief

Edge Data Protection with HPE and StorMagic Combine HPE ProLiant MicroServer and StorMagic SvSAN for a robust, all-in-one architecture specifically suited for implementing applications at the edge Introduction The necessity for near real-time processing in essential applications is driving a push to deploy compute power where it’s most valuable: at the edge. On-premises edge computing also requires high availability [...]

Infographic: StorMagic SvSAN with HPE ProLiant MicroServer

StorMagic SvSAN has been tested and validated on HPE’s ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus, and together, the two provide a robust, all-in-one architecture for the edge. Our MicroServer infographic below contains the all of the key information about both products and how they combine to deliver highly available storage in an incredibly compact device that doesn’t require server racks and can [...]

Simplifying Storage at the Edge with HPE and StorMagic

The challenges posed by edge computing are highly prevalent across all industries and growing still today. Acutely aware of this, StorMagic’s team of experts has been working tirelessly for over a decade to bring SMEs affordable solutions that help to tackle these challenges without sacrificing enterprise-class features or application performance. Since joining forces with HPE back in March 2020, we [...]

Hyperconverged vs Composable IT Infrastructures

Within the last decade, advancements in technology have transformed the way datacenters are designed. Organizations today are creating and managing more data than ever, and IT infrastructures have evolved to meet their growing needs. Hyperconverged and composable infrastructures are two popular configurations within the IT space, ideally suited for particular environments, but not others. In this blog, we’ll discuss the [...]

A Technical Examination of SvSAN 6.3

Your video guide to StorMagic SvSAN 6.3 StorMagic SvSAN 6.3 enables highly available virtualized shared storage by leveraging the internal storage of two standard x86 servers and mirroring the data between them. It is a simple, cost-effective solution that allows organizations with remote, branch, or edge computing locations to eliminate unplanned downtime while ensuring that data processing and applications are [...]

Truth in IT interviews StorMagic CMO at VMware Explore

What an amazing four days at VMware Explore 2022! Our onsite team of Bruce Kornfeld, Nolan Souder, and Stuart Campbell had a ton of interesting conversations with attendees, and had the opportunity to catch up with many of our customers and partners too. We want to say a big thank you to VMware for running the show – we had [...]

The Value of a Flexible Configuration for Hyperconverged Infrastructure

It’s quite normal for organizations to seek the flexibility to work with a variety of different technology vendors. Doing so fosters greater resiliency and less dependency on one supplier. However, the hyperconverged infrastructure market is dominated by proprietary solutions that have extensive system requirements and restrictive compatibility lists that result in hugely expensive, over-provisioned configurations. Vendors that force datacenter-class solutions [...]

Salvando tu compañía de la incertidumbre con SvSAN

¿Te preocupa tu estrategia de SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) y eres usuario activo de VMware? Nosotros te blindamos ante la incertidumbre con nuestra solución de SvSAN. StorMagic te invita a aprender más sobre nuestra solución SvSAN de hiperconvergencia. StorMagic SvSAN es una solución SAN virtual que ofrece computación y almacenamiento de alta disponibilidad en solo dos nodos por [...]

Infographic: HPE StoreVirtual EoSL

The HPE StoreVirtual solution has reached its end of life and is being retired by HPE. With StorMagic part of the HPE Complete program, StorMagic SvSAN is perfectly positioned as a replacement for StoreVirtual, and available directly through HPE. Many organizations that have relied on StoreVirtual for years are turning to SvSAN to provide highly available shared storage and our [...]

HPE Is Retiring StoreVirtual… Are You Prepared For What Comes Next?

StoreVirtual reaches End of Service Life on October 31, 2022. When HPE announced they would be retiring their solution back in 2019, it stirred up many questions from its users who relied heavily on the StoreVirtual product for the normal functioning of their organization, as well as the potential customers considering the solution. Naturally many wondered “Will there be another [...]

Alternatives to vSAN to Avoid Broadcom Uncertainty

Broadcom’s proposed acquisition of VMware has created a lot of questions and uncertainty in the market. VMware is a large organization with many product lines and even more customers. vSAN is one such product which enjoys a dominant market position. But with the acquisition uncertainty clouding its future, what alternatives are available to organizations looking for lightweight, low cost shared [...]

Infographic: Adding an S to vSAN

StorMagic SvSAN and VMware vSAN are two similar virtual SAN products offering highly available shared storage and hyperconvergence for organizations. And with Broadcom’s intention to acquire VMware spelling uncertainty for the future of VMware’s product offerings, including vSAN, we thought we’d take a look at why some current StorMagic customers chose SvSAN over the VMware alternative with this infographic. From [...]

Infographic: StorMagic Named “Strong Performer” in 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’ HCI Software

See how StorMagic customers reviewed our virtual SAN solution, SvSAN, with our infographic highlighting the key findings in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer” for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software report. Check out our ratings for product capabilities and sales, deployment and support experience, and see just how many customers would recommend StorMagic to their networks. The infographic also [...]

Customers Name StorMagic A Strong Performer in Gartner® Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’ for HCI Report

StorMagic is excited and honored to announce that we’ve been recognized in this year’s Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software report.What is Gartner Peer Insights’ “Voice of the Customer”?The “Voice of the Customer” is a document that synthesizes Gartner Peer Insights’ reviews into insights for IT decision makers. This aggregated peer perspective, along with the individual [...]

The Benefits of 2-Node vs 3-Node HCI Clusters at the Edge

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 [...]

Infographic: StorMagic SvSAN 6.3

SvSAN 6.3 is available now and is fully compatible with VMware vSphere 7.0u3c, and Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server 2022. Our infographic below details the main updates within this latest release of SvSAN and the benefits it brings to organizations using either hypervisor. Furthermore, vCenter users can now enjoy an updated SvSAN plugin that conforms to the current vCenter design [...]

Disaster Recovery – Reducing Risk and Ensuring Business Continuity

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 [...]

SvSAN: Cuando La Hiperconvergencia Se Vuelve Fácil

StorMagic los invita a aprender más sobre nuestra solución SvSAN de hiperconvergencia. StorMagic SvSAN es una solución SAN virtual que ofrece computación y almacenamiento de alta disponibilidad en solo dos nodos por clúster hiperconvergente. Es una solución de software ligera, de bajo costo y altamente flexible perfecta para sitios de Edge, para grandes organizaciones con cientos de ubicaciones a compañías [...]

Why Build Your Own Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution?

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is a hot topic, it seems that every server vendor in the IT industry is talking about it and has an offering or play in the space. But, what exactly is hyperconverged infrastructure? Simply put, hyperconverged infrastructures are solutions that combine compute, storage, networking and virtualization into a single platform. You can read a more detailed description [...]

StorMagic SvSAN 6.3 Compatibility with vSphere 7.0 and Hyper-V 2022

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 [...]

Product Introduction to SvSAN

StorMagic SvSAN simplifies IT storage. In contrast to the numerous competing solutions in the storage market, StorMagic SvSAN is not complex, expensive or difficult to manage. At its heart is an ambition to give your organization simple virtual storage. It makes the complex simple. This Product Introduction document for SvSAN provides a high level explanation of the product, its [...]

Infographic: SvSAN on KVM Hypervisors

StorMagic SvSAN can be installed on a Linux KVM hypervisor, creating the lowest cost way to deploy highly available hyperconverged clusters. By using a KVM hypervisor with SvSAN, organizations eliminate the hypervisor tax and combined with the lightweight 2-node cluster architecture for SvSAN, organizations can reduce their solution costs by over 60%. The benefits of leveraging a KVM hypervisor when [...]

Avoid the Hypervisor Tax: A Highly Available 2-Node KVM HCI Solution

The costs and complexities of typical hypervisors are creating more and more headaches for organizations. Escalating license fees and upgrade costs, allied to restrictive and demanding system requirements to enable the advanced hypervisor features necessary for modern IT are prompting business leaders to look elsewhere for their virtualization software. The open-source Linux KVM hypervisor is what business leaders are turning [...]

StorMagic Named in the 2022 CRN® Storage 100

It’s a great day to celebrate at StorMagic! CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named StorMagic to its annual Storage 100 list in the Data Management category. The Storage 100 honors the best-in-class storage vendors that provide innovative products and services to the IT channel. StorMagic was also named a “Top 20 Coolest Vendor in Data Management” as [...]

Avoid the ‘Hypervisor Tax’ with Linux KVM Hypervisors

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 [...]

StorMagic ‘How-To’ Series: Deploying and Uninstalling the HTML5 Plugin in vCenter

StorMagic’s Technical Pre-Sales Support team has produced a series of training videos for our customers and partners, demonstrating how to do certain things in the setup, configuration, and general operations of our software products (i.e. SvSAN, SvKMS). Thus far, we’ve published fourteen different SvSAN “How-To” videos on topics like installing the SvSAN witness on a Windows server, upgrading the StorMagic [...]

StorMagic ‘How-To’ Series: Deploying and Restoring a VSA, via the OVA and Web GUI

Welcome back to StorMagic’s “How-To” video series! This series is a compilation of training videos for our customers and partners, showing how to perform certain actions in the setup, configuration, and general operation of our software products. Videos will be available for all three of our products (SvSAN, SvKMS) in the near future. These latest training videos are for users [...]

Visionary – How SvSAN Progressed in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

StorMagic is thrilled to have been recognized as a “Visionary” in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software. While StorMagic and our solution SvSAN have been included in the report the past four years in a row, this is the first time we’ve made our way into the “Visionary” quadrant. Join us in this recorded webinar for a [...]

Edge Data Protection with StorMagic, Commvault and HPE

Webinar held in partnership with: Protecting data at the edge can be challenging. Edge environments need solutions that are reliable, flexible, and easy to use, and that can adequately protect their workloads, while maintaining the performance, processing, and minimal footprint they require. StorMagic, Commvault, and HPE understand these needs, and have combined forces to deliver a [...]

StorMagic SvSAN with Commvault Solution Brief

Edge Data Protection with HPE, StorMagic, and Commvault HPE Complete provides ultimate protection for the edge. Protect workloads on and off the edge with StorMagic SvSAN and Commvault Backup and Recovery. Challenges at the edge The enterprise IT landscape is going through a digital transformation, as it shifts from single-purpose data center designs to new technologies that deliver agility, [...]

Protect Your Data at the Edge with StorMagic, Commvault, and HPE

Enterprises operating at the network edge require reliable, flexible, and easy-to-use solutions to address their unique challenges and help protect their sensitive data. StorMagic, Commvault, and HPE fully understand these needs, which is why we joined forces to deliver the ultimate edge data protection solution. StorMagic SvSAN and Commvault Backup & Recovery software are now validated with HPE servers, and [...]

Infographic: StorMagic Named “Visionary” in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for HCI Software

StorMagic has been recognized for the fourth year in succession in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software, and has been named as a "Visionary" for the first time. The infographic below celebrates our inclusion and highlights some of our key areas of improvement that we've focused on to ensure our continued recognition. We accredit our recognition as [...]

Our Vision. Your Edge. StorMagic: A Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software 2021

The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software has been released and StorMagic is proud to have been recognized in the report, for the fourth year running!While being included in the report is an honor in itself, we are particularly pleased to have been recognized as a “Visionary” in the 2021 report. In years past, we’ve been recognized in [...]

StorMagic ‘How-To’ Series: Configuring SvSAN with SvKMS Encryption Key Management

StorMagic Technical Pre-Sales Engineer, Steve Bettison, recently produced a new series of training videos for our customers and partners. Within this series, Steve demonstrates how to perform certain actions in the setup, configuration, and general operation of our software products -- SvSAN and SvKMS. The first set of videos in this ‘How-To’ series cover training demonstrations for SvSAN, our virtual [...]

StorMagic ‘How-To’ Series: Using the SvSAN Plugin with vSphere & vCenter

Welcome back to the StorMagic “How-To” video series! Here at StorMagic we’re producing training videos for our customers and partners, to show how to perform certain actions in the setup, configuration, and general operation of our software products (SvSAN, SvKMS). Led by Technical Pre-Sales Engineer, Steve Bettison, the next set of videos continues to focus on tutorials for SvSAN -- [...]

StorMagic Named “Hyperconvergence Vendor of the Year” for Two Years in a Row

This past week, Storage Magazine announced the winners of the 2021 Storage Awards (The Storries XVIII), at a black-tie gala in London. StorMagic proudly took home the award for “Hyperconvergence Vendor of the Year,” for the second year in a row! We were recognized in the “Hyperconvergence Vendor of the Year” category for our virtual SAN solution, SvSAN, which delivers [...]

Infographic: Giant Eagle with StorMagic SvSAN and SvKMS

Keeping a retail organization’s instore applications online is critical to ensure shops remain open, but it is even more paramount for pharmacy systems and patient data. Giant Eagle, one of the United States’ largest food retailers needed a solution to eliminate downtime and keep their instore pharmacies operational and their data secure. The infographic below details how Giant Eagle turned [...]

StorMagic ‘How-To’ Series: Upgrading SvSAN VSAs via the vSphere Dashboard

Welcome to the third blog from StorMagic’s ‘How-To’ series! For those that are new to this series, StorMagic’s Technical Services team has developed a collection of instructional videos for our customers and partners, explaining how to set up, configure, and maintain general operations of our software products. In the future, videos will be available on SvKMS, our encryption key manager. [...]

StorMagic ‘How-To’ Series: SvSAN and vSphere

The StorMagic “How-To” series is a collection of instructional videos created by our Technical Services team to help train our customers and partners on setting up, configuring, and managing our software products. The first set of videos from this series cover SvSAN, our virtual SAN product. Our last blog provided an overview of the first two videos in the series, [...]

StorMagic ‘How-To’ Series: Installing the SvSAN Witness

StorMagic’s Technical Services team has developed a new series of instructional videos, to help train our customers and partners on how to set up, configure, and manage the general operation of our software products. These videos will include tutorials for SvSAN, our virtual SAN product, and SvKMS, our encryption key manager. SvSAN is the first solution covered in this portion [...]

Time for a Server Refresh? Consider Making the Switch to a Virtual SAN

Nothing lasts forever. In technology years, expiration dates typically equate to about 18 to 24 months. However, after nearly nine years (an epic lifetime for any server), Dell is calling it quits on its PowerEdge VRTX solution. For those who may not be familiar with PowerEdge VRTX, it is considered a “datacenter in a box,” with up to four blade [...]

StorMagic Customers Evaluate SvSAN in Gartner® Peer Insights’ HCI ‘Voice of the Customer’ Report

StorMagic is proud to have been included in the Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software report. We have been named a North American Customers’ Choice in the 2021 report. What is Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’? The Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ is a document that synthesizes Gartner Peer Insights’ reviews into [...]

Infographic: Gartner® Voice of the Customer 2021

Our Gartner® Peer Insights Voice of the Customer infographic provides a snapshot of what StorMagic customers have been saying about our virtual SAN solution, SvSAN. Check out our ratings for product capabilities and sales, deployment and support experience, and see just how many customers would recommend StorMagic to their networks. The infographic also provides a snapshot of some of the [...]