Overview Telegrupp AS, based in Tallinn, Estonia, delivers high availability IT infrastructure and managed services to clients across Northern Europe. The company specializes in building resilient systems and has earned a strong reputation for reliable technology solutions. To improve uptime and accelerate recovery in its own infrastructure, the team at Telegrupp implemented StorMagic SvSAN. The results were immediate. The [...]
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) combines computing, networking, and storage resources into a single datacenter architecture. What is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution? This software-driven model eliminates dedicated hardware by creating flexible storage across multiple nodes. Each node runs a virtualization layer that consolidates and distributes resources throughout the cluster, forming a unified storage system. Software-defined networking (SDN) and load-balancing tools optimize request [...]
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.
Small to mid-size businesses, and those operating at the network edge face unique challenges in today’s tech landscape. Few or no onsite IT personnel, limited budgets, harsh computing environments, and limited or no network connectivity are common issues, making finding a reliable application service solution paramount. December 2020 saw Microsoft introduce Azure Stack HCI, a hybrid cloud service offering unrestricted [...]
In the world of banks and finance, IT challenges are all too common, particularly when it comes to legacy hardware. With high running costs, snail-paced transfer speeds, disruptive downtime, and looming cyber threats, it’s no surprise that many are turning to more modernized solutions like virtualized systems. If you’re interested in exploring the industry’s shift in this direction, we’ve got [...]
Been keeping up with the news lately? If so, you'll already be aware that the VMware acquisition by Broadcom was officially completed late last year. As we all predicted, this has created significant disruption, resulting in significant layoffs, changes to the structure and cost of licenses for their 500,000+ existing customers, and the closure of VMware’s partner program. Many [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 – [...]
A virtual storage area network (SAN) is a software-based component that provides a virtualized ‘pool’ of storage to multiple virtual machines (VMs) and applications. In order to achieve this, data is passed (shared) between servers over a network using a protocol such as iSCSI or fibre channel.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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¿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 [...]
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 [...]
Over the past two decades, virtualization has become a standard building block for millions of applications. It triumphed because of its powerful abstraction over physical hardware, allowing for better use, management, automation, and security. However, with the introduction of Kubernetes and containers, it is common to question previous assumptions and ask whether it is better to use bare metal Linux [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
VRTX customers and prospects are looking for an alternative solution, as the product is approaching end of life (EOL). Is there a comparable solution?
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 [...]
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 [...]
SvSAN is the virtual SAN that makes the complex world of virtualized storage simple. Perfect for edge computing environments, the technology is based on software-defined storage that eliminates the need for physical SANs. SvSAN is designed to be very simple to install and manage whether deployed as part of a hyperconverged solution or as a storage-only target for any server [...]
We are thrilled to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, included StorMagic in its first ever 2020 Edge Computing 100 list. This new list, selected by a panel of respected CRN editors, recognizes leading vendors whose technology provides the building blocks channel partners need to build next-generation intelligent edge solutions that bring data collection and processing closer [...]
We are thrilled to announce that StorMagic has expanded its partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), through the validation of our virtual SAN software solution, SvSAN, with HPE Edgeline Converged Edge Systems. Together, StorMagic and HPE are dedicated to designing hyperconverged solutions that are purpose-built for edge computing environments. Edge organizations (i.e. branch offices, retails stores, and small datacenters) are [...]
There are a number of benefits associated with transitioning from traditional, physical storage infrastructure and switching to a virtual SAN (virtual storage network). However, one of the most notable and advantageous for organizations, at the edge and beyond, is the significant cost savings delivered by making the switch. Traditional datacenter models require a physical NAS appliance or storage array to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BRISTOL, England – 10 September, 2019 – StorMagic®, simplifying storage at the edge, announced today that Benore Logistic Systems, Inc., a Michigan-based supply-chain solutions company, has replaced its legacy standalone SAN with StorMagic SvSAN to improve performance and add redundancy. With SvSAN, Benore Logistic has maintained 100 percent uptime and realized a tenfold system performance increase compared to its previous [...]
StorMagic’s relationship with Lenovo extends back many years, and now StorMagic SvSAN is available on the Lenovo configurator. It is now easier than ever to benefit from cost-effective, high performance hardware, paired with simple and lightweight virtual storage. We’re really excited with this development in our partnership with Lenovo - both companies share similar ideologies about delivering affordable, lightweight solutions [...]
Last week, StorMagic's sales and marketing teams assembled from around the world to kick off the start of FY20. We've got a really exciting year ahead, and so the team celebrated the start of it with a company wide BBQ, and making the most of a sunny Bristol with a boat trip. Here's some of the best photos from the [...]
Aging SANs put your business at risk Is your SAN getting old? Is the maintenance becoming increasingly expensive and time-consuming? Has it failed recently? Are you running out of much-needed capacity? If the answer to any of the above questions is ‘yes’, then perhaps you’re already looking into replacing your old SAN with a newer model. But, the best decision [...]
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 [...]
Cut costs and boost performance by switching from a physical SAN to a virtual SAN. Virtualizing your storage? Replacing your physical SAN with a virtual SAN could save CAPEX and OPEX as well as cooling, power and maintenance costs. Join Mark Christie, Senior Systems Engineer at StorMagic for this webinar as he runs you through why you should consider [...]