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Manufacturer Witholz GmbH virtualizes IT environment to achieve 100% uptime with StorMagic SvSAN

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 [...]

Infographic: Why are German manufacturers choosing SvSAN?

StorMagic SvSAN is trusted by many manufacturers in Germany to keep production lines running and factories operational. Our German manufacturing infographic below explains why five of them chose SvSAN. In addition to the five examples in the infographic below, read through more of our manufacturing case studies such as Ontex BVBA, Keiser Corp and CAE S.p.A. For more information on [...]

SvSAN for Retail – Solution Overview

In-store operations are the lifeblood of most retailers, from the smallest to the largest. From stockroom to showroom, shelf to scanner, in-store processes and systems make the business of retail work. A variety of applications (POS, video surveillance, stock control, and more) capture and supply the data that not only report on what was, but provide information on what [...]

DCIG Top 5 Rising Vendors for HCI Software Solutions

Performance, modernization, and the rapid explosion of data at the edge are some of the greatest issues plaguing organizations using legacy hardware today. In need of an all-in-one solution to upgrade their outdated infrastructure, many have looked to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as a solution. Now found in a myriad of locations including the datacenter, private and hybrid cloud, distributed [...]

StorMagic SvSAN Included in DCIG’s Top 5 Rising HCI Vendors Report

The amount of data being created and stored at the edge is expanding rapidly, bringing with it the many challenges associated with operating in these environments, and causing more and more to turn to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as a solution. Today, HCI is used in a myriad of locations including datacenters, the private cloud, hybrid cloud, distributed enterprises, and small [...]

Infographic: StorMagic SvSAN Included in DCIG’s Top 5 Rising HCI Vendors Report

The 2023-24 DCIG TOP 5 Rising Vendors for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Software Solutions report contains the highest-rated vendors by analyst firm DCIG and is a valuable resource for organizations looking to evaluate HCI software vendors. Our infographic below explains the key details of the report, and for a full explanation, you can download the entire report here. In the report, [...]

Charles Russell Speechlys simplifies environment and reduces costs with StorMagic SvSAN

About Charles Russell Speechlys Charles Russell Speechlys LLP is an international law firm which focuses on private capital, at the intersection of personal, family and business. It is headquartered in London with offices across the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Business Challenge Charles Russell Speechlys previously used VMware vSAN to manage its business level applications, including domain [...]

Infographic: SvSAN in the Legal Sector

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 [...]

Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure Needed at the Edge?

Distributed, remote IT environments, also known as the “edge” have grown significantly in recent years. In parallel, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has become a common “household” solution for most organizations looking to modernize their IT systems. But are HCI solutions really a viable option for edge sites considering space, resources, and connectivity are often in short supply there? If these [...]

SvSAN for Manufacturing – Solution Overview

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 [...]

High Availability: Building a Highly Available Two Node Configuration

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 [...]

Is Edge Computing the Key to Developing Smart Cities?

Our world is constantly growing and evolving. By 2050, the human population is predicted to jump up to a whopping 10.8 billion people, with 68% living in urban environments. Consequently, there is increasing pressure to invest in more sustainable ways of living, like developing smart cities, that harness the power of the cloud and edge computing. Artificial Intelligence (AI), the [...]

Defining Edge Computing for the Modern Era

With the advent of mobile connectivity, bring-your-own-devices, working from home, and this unilateral shift from on-premises to the cloud, the very way we consume and work with our data on a day-to-day basis has changed and is continually shifting. We’re used to these buzzwords being thrown at us from all angles, none more so lately than edge computing. But what [...]

Infographic: StorMagic SvSAN in the manufacturing sector

A highly available virtual SAN product such as SvSAN ensures manufacturing facilities do not suffer from crippling periods of downtime that interrupt production flows and processes, and ultimately impact revenue. ERP systems, robot control and monitoring, building automation, forklift telemetry, video surveillance, and IoT are all examples of onsite applications that might require local storage and data processing. Our infographic [...]

Eugen Forschner GmbH eliminates downtime with StorMagic SvSAN

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 [...]

Infographic: Talking SvSAN with manufacturers

StorMagic SvSAN has been deployed by manufacturing organizations around the world in all sorts of sectors, from automotive to electronics, appliances to fabrics. We sat down with some of them to understand why they chose SvSAN to provide highly available shared storage on their factory floors, and the benefits they’ve seen as a result. Browse through the quotes in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. StorMagic SvSAN is perfectly positioned as a replacement for StoreVirtual. Many organizations that have relied on StoreVirtual for years are turning to SvSAN to provide highly available shared storage and our infographic below explores some of these use cases – from government to manufacturing, [...]

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 savings [...]

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 [...]

StorMagic SvSAN 6.3 Compatibility with vSphere 7.0 and Hyper-V

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 powerful, [...]

StorMagic SvSAN with Commvault Solution Brief

Edge Data Protection with StorMagic SvSAN, HPE, and Commvault 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, scalability, and greater efficiency for protecting data [...]

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. Read [...]

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 [...]