SvSAN

Explaining the StorMagic SvSAN Witness

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 [...]

Creating Stretch Clusters With StorMagic SvSAN

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 [...]

Amsterdam Airport “Flies” for 6 Consecutive Years with SvSAN

StorMagic recently announced a customer success with one of the globe’s most well-known airports: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Using SvSAN, the airport has achieved six years of continuous uptime and counting, which exceeds its 99.8 percent uptime SLA. Schiphol integrated Dell PowerEdge R520 servers with a VMWare vSphere 5.5 hypervisor and StorMagic SvSAN software to manage the control system of the [...]

Unlocking Renewable Energy at the Edge

Renewable energy sources are our future. The industry is growing at a rapid pace, with an 8.3% increase in global renewable capacity in 2017 alone (IRENA, 2018). Renewable capacity is expected to increase by a further 43% by 2022 (IEA, 2017), a figure that has potential to be much higher, should renewable energy companies harness technology in the correct way. [...]

Encryption’s Evolution in Today’s GDPR Compliant World

Hosted jointly by Fornetix and StorMagic The impact on encryption at the edge With the long-awaited GDPR Compliance deadline behind us, how are end users coping with the challenges that come along with the change? The recent spike in encryption adoption at the edge was an anticipated shift, and is already helping today’s IT architects [...]

SvSAN Overview Part Three: Deployment Methods

Welcome to the final installment of a three part blog, providing a technical overview of StorMagic SvSAN. Part one of the blog provided a brief overview of SvSAN and outlined how you can decide whether hyperconverged infrastructure or server SAN is right for you. The second part explored SvSAN in more depth, and this part will define options for deployment [...]

Connecting the Edge to the Citrix Cloud

At the start of the week we announced the general availability of StorMagic’s direct connectivity to Citrix Cloud, and the first edge appliance designed specifically for Citrix Workspace Services. The solution combines Cisco infrastructure with Citrix technology, delivering a compelling hybrid cloud solution available globally. StorMagic has enabled direct connection between Citrix Cloud and any user location to simplify the [...]

StorMagic SvSAN Technical Overview

The StorMagic SvSAN Technical Overview is the definitive white paper in gathering a complete picture of SvSAN's capabilities and deployment options. Explore the ways in which SvSAN can be leveraged to deliver cost-effective, virtualized storage on one, two or more nodes at each location. Obtain an overview of the hyperconverged and server SAN deployment models and get a better [...]

Data Encryption Best Practices for Edge Environments

The news from the last few years is littered with stories about security breaches from electronic point-of-sale malware attacks on large US retailers, leaked online credit card payment details, sensitive defense documents being published, to celebrity private photos being stolen. Why is this happening, and are these organizations really following data encryption best practices? The fact is that many [...]

Simplifying Storage for Edge Computing Environments

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

High Stakes High Availability

Location, cost or connectivity shouldn’t jeopardize your uptime. Watch this webinar with StorMagic and Maho Group to learn more.

Understanding & Implementing Storage Performance Analysis

Is your storage up to scratch? How do you know if your storage infrastructure is performing at its best? Or, do you know how under-utilized your infrastructure is? Getting an accurate read on what your organization actually needs, against what your infrastructure currently provides, is critical to ensure an efficient, cost-effective storage architecture. Under-provision, and you’ll quickly find performance [...]

StorMagic & Citrix Workspace Appliances Solution Brief

StorMagic & Citrix Workspace Appliances Citrix revolutionized desktop and app delivery over 20 years ago. The need to virtualize and centralize Windows desktops and applications has not diminished, with organizations large and small continuing to select Citrix as the market leader in this space with over 400 million users connecting to a Citrix cluster. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has emerged [...]

Build Your Own vs. Appliance – A Comparison of HCI Deployment

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) promises elegant simplicity in the datacenter: Networking, storage, and compute on commodity hardware that lets you scale capacity and performance when you need it. The reality is much different. Complexity of both the implementation and ongoing management can vary significantly, depending on the underlying architecture and the workloads running on top of it. Since there are [...]

Closing the Performance Gap – SvSAN’s Caching Features

With each new generation of processor, modern servers can process more in less time. However, this is limited by the performance of storage which has led to an ever-widening performance gap being created. This white paper defines what is meant by the performance gap, what can be done to reduce it and how StorMagic is addressing the issue with [...]

A new alternative to all-flash arrays: Predictive Storage Caching

The performance of all-flash arrays, without the cost One of the key challenges facing storage architects at present is how best to efficiently manage hardware in order to maximize performance without incurring significant costs. This is difficult to achieve with standard architectures without massively increasing the amount of disk drives, or spending enormous amounts on all-flash arrays. The solution [...]

Leveraging the Internet of Things? The cloud is not your holy grail

Even if you have rudimentary estimating capabilities and you spend a little time doing back of the napkin calculations, you'll quickly figure out that the notion that "all data is going to the cloud" is patently absurd. In the world of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), data is collected "in the field." And in the field, especially in remote [...]

Branch offices and SMBs: choosing the right hyperconverged solution

Insight and advice from industry expert Howard Marks Are you investigating options for low-cost, highly available IT systems for small sites? Is it hard to find a solution that delivers the uptime and performance needed AND doesn’t break the budget? Watch as analyst and storage expert Howard Marks gives his views and advice on this problem. With over 25 [...]

StorMagic SvSAN – Targeting HCI’s ROBO Sweet Spot

Howard Marks from Deep Storage and frequent writer for Network Computing discusses how StorMagic’s approach to software-defined storage is designed to keep costs low while improving performance and maintaining highly available clusters. Over the past ten years hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has gone from leading edge technology to become the fastest growing method for building an IT infrastructure. As HCI acceptance [...]

Triangulate your Storage Architecture with SvSAN Caching

Cut out the compromises in your storage architecture Trying to reduce your storage costs but don’t want to compromise capacity or performance? Join StorMagic for the latest edition of our Monthly Webinar Series, exploring how you can triangulate your storage architecture with SvSAN 6.1 caching. Complete the adjacent form to watch the recorded webinar on-demand, and download the presentation [...]

SvSAN 6.1 – More performance, more flexibility, less cost

Taking software-defined storage to the next level with StorMagic SvSAN 6.1 Join StorMagic for the announcement of the latest version of their virtual SAN solution: SvSAN 6.1. SvSAN 6.1 takes the impressive capabilities of SvSAN 6.0 and augments it with a host of new features including read and write caching, intelligent auto-tiering and automated PowerShell script generation. These additional features [...]

Build Your Own Server SAN

The following white paper explores how the combination of industry-standard servers and software-defined storage can enable the creation of an advanced storage array at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage products, whilst delivering increased flexibility for future demands. Many organizations have already deployed server SANs with great success and this white paper will demonstrate why today is the [...]

Build Your Own Advanced Server-Based Storage Array

Take advantage of the perfect storm and learn how to maximize server-based storage Gone are the days when an organisation should simply decide which storage array will meet their needs and then go purchase an off-the-shelf storage appliance from the likes of NetApp or EMC. We are now in the perfect storm of three forces - server commoditization, low cost [...]

Understanding Storage Performance for Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Free webinar: Using real-world data to show how to configure your hyperconverged infrastructure for cost efficiency and performance. Hyperconverged infrastucture is now being broadly adopted, yet many organisations are blindly deploying these new shiny toys without clear line of sight to an optimal storage configuration.

StorMagic SvSAN with VMware vSphere Replication

This white paper discusses how to utilize VMware vSphere Replication in conjunction with StorMagic SvSAN. This enables organizations that want to deliver a low cost remote site storage infrastructure, to also add an offsite data replication capability for...

Solving Remote Site IT Challenges with StorMagic SvSAN

This white paper discusses IT challenges facing organizations with distributed sites, common pain points in these remote site environments and how SvSAN can help to resolve these challenges. Ideal read for organizations looking to formulate their future...

StorMagic SvSAN with Cisco UCS C-Series Solution Brief

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

Milwaukee gets business continuity without the cost of a SAN

As the need for a high availability infrastructure grew, network administrator, George Knops, was not only tasked with finding the right technology, but also one that avoided the purchase of multiple SANs to accommodate a failover situation. “We were faced with the challenge of needing 2 data centers that mirrored one another, so that...

SvSAN & Microsoft Storage Spaces

Windows Server 2012 introduced Storage Spaces. This document discusses the features of Storage Spaces and how SvSAN complements Storage Spaces, enabling customers to provide a robust shared storage solution with a minimal infrastructure footprint, optimized for the distributed enterprise.

Solid-State Disks for the Distributed Enterprise

Adoption of SSD technology in enterprise environments as a primary storage has gained momentum in recent years. This white paper looks at the factors that should be considered as part of the TCO when deploying SSD in the distributed enterprise.

StorMagic SvSAN Volume Migration Feature

One of the biggest challenges faced by storage administrators is data migration, either to different storage arrays or between different storage tiers within the same array. Download this white paper to learn how the target migration feature in SvSAN addresses these challenges and simplifies storage migrations.