Earlier this month, an unplanned server outage at the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix led to the DRS (Drag Reduction System) being disabled for 17 laps. The technology is meant to kick in at the start of lap three, and is designed to make overtaking easier. When drivers are close enough to a car in front, they can open [...]
A sneak peek at what's coming soon in SvSAN 6.2 Update 2 StorMagic SvSAN 6.2 Update 2 is coming soon, and in this webinar we will explain and demo the new features it will bring. Typically, SvSAN customers are using our technology for edge computing virtualization in many locations. This tends to be a large estate managed by minimal [...]
The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the most reliable, comprehensive market research report within the industry. This week, StorMagic celebrates recognition as a Niche Player in the report, for a second year, in the 2019 Magic Quadrant. Our product, SvSAN is specifically designed to reduce complexity and costs for edge sites. Our two-node solution is tailored to fit [...]
In a competitive and ever-evolving air transportation industry, investment in IT infrastructure is mission critical.
As more and more data moves to the edge, the complexity and demands on edge sites increases dramatically. Is it possible to configure simple, cost-effective IT infrastructure for the edge, without sacrificing performance? The HPE ProLiant DL325 and DL360 Gen10 rack servers are HPE’s high performing 2U and 1U servers, which are specifically designed for ‘hard working’ small sites. Both [...]
Organizations across all verticals are finding that their need to locate compute and storage resources at their edge locations is increasing, and they are therefore faced with selecting a solution to meet these new requirements.
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Are you ready for a blood curdling tale of the spookiest degree? There once was an edge site that was sold datacenter technology at a horrifying fee, Their small sites were overrun with complex, high powered, unnecessary hardware, The running and maintenance costs were enough to end their virtual storage love affair, They knew they had overprovisioned, But they’d never [...]
A lot of on-site storage originated in the datacenter, and has been designed as such. As we are experiencing the rise of IoT and the move to processing data at the edge, these large datacenter technologies are attempting to scale their technology down, in order to compete within this space. It’s a bit like being given a really nice pair [...]
Your old physical SAN might be trusted and familiar. However, technology has advanced to meet the needs of the edge, and physical SAN may be burdening your organization with unnecessary cost, time, and energy.
Depending on where you are in the world, October will either evoke an image of golden crunchy leaves, pumpkin spice and fluffy jumpers, or it conjures scenes of cold, persistent rain, grey skies, sludgy mush on the ground, and soggy socks. For the StorMagic team, it’s our busiest time of year for getting out and talking to end users, partners [...]
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Introduction Computing and storage resources are moving ever closer to where data is generated, a trend that is being driven by demands for faster, more flexible processing of data. Organizations are discovering that traditional solutions weren’t designed for these new demands and are therefore seeking out more suitable alternatives. Solutions built for the edge need to be powerful and [...]
Digital technology has completely revolutionized the way we do business. It is now so interwoven that IT services are beyond a requirement; they are critical. Our dependence on these systems and functions has therefore become an Achilles' heel, and disaster recovery has become a subject of priority for businesses across the globe. Even seemingly small outages can negatively impact your [...]
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With the launch of the Raspberry Pi 4, we thought it would be interesting to look at some of the many fascinating ways it’s been used in this Raspberry Pi infographic. The infographic looks at three uses – a smart sprinkler system, a disposable camera that creates animated GIFs, and its use as a witness service to provide quorum for [...]
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Our SvSAN data encryption infographic provides an overview of the data encryption feature of StorMagic SvSAN. Available as an additional feature on top of the base SvSAN license, SvSAN's data encryption feature is the most cost-effective encryption solution for storing data in edge computing environments. Want to find out more about transforming your IT infrastructure with SvSAN data encryption? Read [...]
Not only is SvSAN the most cost-effective hyperconverged infrastructure solution on the market, this lightweight virtual SAN delivers huge savings when companies switch from a physical SAN in their hardware refresh. It's all well and good us telling you that you could save $$$ by creating a lightweight virtual environment with SvSAN, but the stats say it better. Check out [...]
Recently, we announced that StorMagic SvSAN is now available on the Dell Software and Peripherals (S&P) price list, making it easier than ever to deploy the most cost-effective hyperconverged infrastructure solution on the market. Organizations around the world are already running SvSAN on Dell EMC and benefitting from a low-cost virtual SAN solution that enables high availability and is easy [...]
Last week, we announced our new partnership with Dell EMC. This is really exciting for StorMagic, as SvSAN is now available from Dell on the Software & Peripherals (S&P) price list, making it easier than ever for Dell customers to create hyperconverged infrastructure that is easy to manage and incredibly cost effective. SvSAN on Dell EMC servers is the most [...]
By Tony Asaro and Bruce Kornfeld In part one of this blog series, we discussed the hype that cloud brought when it was first introduced, and shared some research to show where the state of the market is today. In part two we’ll address the state of the edge, and considerations when choosing between onsite IT versus public cloud solutions. [...]
StorMagic is celebrating its 5-Star status in the winners’ spotlight of CRN’s latest Partner Program Guide. Partner programs were evaluated based on program investments, partner profitability, training, education and support and other metrics. The strongest, most successful channel partner programs that brought home a 5-Star rating are an elite subset of companies offering the most comprehensive and compelling channel programs [...]
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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 [...]
One of the benefits of deploying SvSAN is that it makes any edge site, branch office or small datacenter easy to manage. SvSAN is designed to work with your existing hardware as an alternative to a physical SAN, creating a virtualized environment that can be managed from a centralized remote location. This makes it as easy to manage 1,000 locations [...]
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 [...]
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Some of the world's most prestigious universities rely on SvSAN to prevent unplanned downtime. Educational institutions need a system that is simple to provision and manages and can ensure critical systems uptime. This infographic outlines how SvSAN saves Oxford University and Boston University Medical Campus a significant amount of money on their hardware refresh while providing them with a system [...]
This week, StorMagic SvSAN was named a Bronze Winner in the Encryption Product Category of the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. This program honors individuals, products and companies that demonstrate excellence, innovation and leadership in information security. The finalists and winners were selected based on the strength of their nomination, as well as the popular vote by members of the Information [...]
By Tony Asaro and Bruce Kornfeld We recently hosted a webinar that examined the state of public cloud versus onsite IT in 2019. In this two-part blog series, we’ll highlight a few of the topics we tackled during the event. The link to listen to the replay on demand at your convenience is here. Several headlines dominated the news in [...]
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. Cisco and StorMagic have come together to provide a leading solution to address the challenges at the edge by combining the ISR 4000 [...]
We’ve invited Tony Asaro to join StorMagic’s GM - Americas & CMO, Bruce Kornfeld for a very special webinar. In case you don’t know Tony, he’s an Industry Analyst and Technologist, who focuses on software-as-a-service, data lifecycle and associated compelling technologies. He’s CEO, senior analyst, consultant and founder of the INI Group, an analyst, consulting, research and strategy firm focused [...]
Organizations can often fall victim to over-provisioning their HCI solution because most appliance models have limited choices for storage and processor/memory combinations. However, SvSAN is designed to be flexible, and allow users to configure to their precise requirements. You can use Storage Performance Analysis (find more here) to understand your organization’s workloads and configure your infrastructure to your exact needs. [...]
What should be handled by onsite IT, and what should you leave to the cloud? While the public cloud is now a regular component of how we do business, it is certainly not the remedy for every application, workload or environment. Although the public cloud has celebrated major success, on-premises IT infrastructure has also thrived and continues to grow, thanks [...]
The Security Center of Iceland provides on-site security, remote surveillance, CCTV and guarding services for healthcare organizations, retail stores, and airlines across Iceland. They require 24/7 availability for the monitoring center, for critical services. A priority for them was to add virtualization with triple redundancy to both in house and remote sites. They needed a cost-effective solution that would future-proof [...]
As a simple, lightweight software-defined storage solution, StorMagic SvSAN has been designed to be tailored to an organization’s specific needs at the time of deployment providing a minimal two-node highly available storage solution. Configuring the solution to the exact requirements eliminates over-provisioning. Yet few organizations’ requirements stay the same over time. Growth or changes of direction within an organization create [...]
Imagine it: you’re sitting there with the #squad, ready to watch the Superbowl and cable/satellite connection goes blank. The signal comes back a few minutes later, but you’ve already missed a historic touchdown. You catch up on the highlights post-game, but it’s not the same as watching the big game live - right now. You’re angry and frustrated at your [...]
SvSAN is a great solution for bringing high availability to edge sites, which makes it perfect for airports: where uptime is critical.
Earlier this week, StorMagic announced that storage industry executive, Brian Grainger, has joined StorMagic as its chief revenue officer and a member of the Board of Directors. We’ve captured a short Q&A session with him to find out more about what he’s bringing to StorMagic and where he sees the organization, and the edge, heading next …. Question 1: Your [...]
In case you missed it, in December, we ran a webinar on a topic that we’ve been asked about frequently by end-users: Can you run SvSAN as a 3-node deployment? Mark Christie, Principal Technical Architect at StorMagic started the webinar by briefly outlining how SvSAN can be deployed as a 3-node system. With our approach to 3-node clustering, if a [...]
StorMagic is excited to be included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure for the very first time. Included as part of the Niche Players Quadrant, this is fantastic recognition for StorMagic as a key player in delivering edge storage and hyperconverged solutions. StorMagic was recognised for providing lightweight virtual storage to the edge of the network, whether that’s for [...]
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Future-defined server hardware that simplifies storage at the edge An efficient, low-cost storage solution that has the flexibility to scale with demand is something all organizations should be striving to achieve. No-one should be paying more than they need to for their storage infrastructure and its ongoing operation and maintenance, regardless of their performance requirements. It is with this [...]
StorMagic SvSAN has been designed to provide organizations with the capability to architect IT systems that are resilient, have adequate redundancy and are highly available. Downtime can be incredibly detrimental to the productivity of an organization, with most companies being completely reliant on IT for everyday operations. By bringing datacenter technology to small/remote/branch sites, SvSAN can create highly available virtual [...]
Resiliency in the face of server failure or maintenance A typical SvSAN deployment calls for cluster sizes of just two nodes as the lightest, simplest, most efficient way of delivering highly available virtualized storage. However, a two node cluster cannot retain high availability should one node be lost through failure or maintenance. The storage is still available, on the [...]
Many companies 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 for an organization. This is important as the idea of the datacenter grows to include distributed computing [...]
StorMagic SvSAN is a virtual storage appliance (VSA) that provides a lightweight, highly available shared storage solution, with no single points of failure. It is typically deployed on to two servers and performs synchronous mirroring between the servers. Although 2-node clusters deployments are the most common use case for SvSAN, it is possible to scale-out the cluster beyond two servers, [...]
When StorMagic first entered the scene, if you wanted shareable storage then you needed to invest in expensive, complex external SANs or NAS technology, and pay staff that could manage it. This is why the very ethos of StorMagic is about making the complex simple, and making shared storage accessible to more organizations. From the very beginning, StorMagic has eliminated [...]
A lot of ‘on premises’ storage has been developed based on the needs of the datacenter, a complete solution that combines hardware and software. Gartner predicts that by 2022, 75% of all data will be generated outside of the traditional datacenter. This suggests a shift towards processing data at the edge, which is something that a lot of these datacenter [...]
StorMagic SvSAN is a virtual storage appliance (VSA) that provides a lightweight, highly available shared storage solution, with no single points of failure. It is typically deployed on to two servers and performs synchronous mirroring between the servers. Although 2-node clusters deployments are the most common use case for SvSAN, it is possible to scale-out the cluster beyond two servers, [...]
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Best Practices for Achieving High Availability For most organizations, high availability is a key objective with the goal being as close to 100% uptime as possible. SvSAN is the perfect way to ensure high availability between 2 or more servers and help organizations achieve this, with a variety of deployment options available. We’ve put together some high availability use cases [...]
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Businesses that require high service availability in their applications can design their storage infrastructure in such a way as to create redundancy and eliminate single points of failure. StorMagic SvSAN achieves this through clustering - each instance of SvSAN is deployed as a two node cluster, with storage shared across the two nodes. However, in order to properly mitigate against failures and the threat of downtime, an [...]
Many physical disruptions and disasters that organizations face are localized to a specific room, building or campus. Much maintenance and repair work that organizations undertake is similarly contained to a single location or is completed in a staged manner. For IT operations, these more-frequent, localized events cause significant disruption, but the disruption can be minimized or eliminated through the use [...]