Should I stay, or should I go now? Should I stay, or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble And if I stay, it will be double So come on and let me know… Many organizations are considering a move away from VMware, but some hesitate after hearing the numbers. Gartner reports that migrating 2,000 or [...]
Welcome to the first installment of our new first-hand experience blog series. Our new Technical Marketing Manager, Dennis Smith, will guide you through a first-hand product installation of SvSAN. If you’re not familiar with StorMagic SvSAN, it’s a lightweight, cost-effective virtual SAN designed specifically for edge computing and small data center environments. It eliminates the need for physical SANs by [...]
Broadcom’s overhaul of VMware’s licensing model marked a shift in the hyperconverged infrastructure landscape. Before the late 2023 announcement, the vendor served as a steady and reliable provider for countless IT infrastructures, but many businesses are now looking for alternatives to VMware thanks to changing licensing and the introduction of subscription-based plans. The new model encourages businesses into multi-year contracts, [...]
The Broadcom overhaul of its VMware licensing structure signaled a major transformation in how businesses procure and manage VMware solutions. The move, which swept away the familiar comfort of a perpetual license and replaced it with a subscription-based model, wasn’t just a minor pivot for Broadcom. It was part of a greater change within the industry heavyweight’s strategic direction while [...]
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has reshaped today’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market, pushing businesses to reconsider their reliance on VMware's HCI software due to concerns around pricing, support, and product direction. With the HCI market estimated to grow at a CAGR of 23.5% from 2024 to 2030, it's no surprise that VMware alternatives are rapidly gaining traction. As organizations seek greater [...]
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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.
This recorded webinar explores the findings from analyst firm DCIG’s report, "2024-25 DCIG Top 5 VMware vSphere Alternatives SMB/Edge Edition". CEO and Principal Analyst at DCIG, Jerome Wendt, joins James Clarke and Mark Christie from StorMagic to discuss his analysis of the market. About the Webinar In this webinar, Jerome discusses his pivotal DCIG report that evaluates 15 hyperconverged infrastructure [...]
The hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market is changing. Many businesses are moving away from popular solutions like VMware vSphere. Changing licensing, costs, concerns about vendor lock-in, and the need for greater flexibility drive this shift. Businesses are increasingly seeking alternatives offering performance, flexibility, and more cost-effective pricing models. These options empower companies to build IT environments that better align with their [...]
Join us for a unique webinar covering the DCIG Competitive Intelligence Report that examines the differences between VMware vSAN and StorMagic SvSAN. With key insights straight from Jerome Wendt of DCIG and StorMagic’s Bruce Kornfeld, discover exactly what differentiates both solutions. We take a closer look at: Software options and associated licensing costs Minimum server hardware requirements Two-node HA [...]
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.
In early 2024, we sat down with StorMagic’s Chief Revenue Officer, Brian Grainger, and PBG Networks’ Director of Professional Services, Paul Wozniak to discuss Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and the upheaval that it may cause for VMware users and partners alike. Long-time StorMagic partners, Paul talks about PBG Networks’ experiences with StorMagic, and most importantly, what they advise VMware partners [...]
Since Broadcom acquired VMware, IT executives, system administrators and storage engineers have been looking around, wondering whether they need to start thinking about VMware alternatives. For many of them, their organizations will be heavily reliant on VMware products for virtualization and high availability. While some may be able to absorb licensing changes and price hikes, others are less confident, and [...]
VMware by Broadcom has announced new subscription bundles, the removal of product options, and the cancellation of the VMware partner program. What happens now to VMware partners and customers? VMware Did It All Go Wrong? It’s not us, it’s you. VMware, why have you left us? You have always been there for us, the small and medium businesses, the remote [...]
Businesses today depend heavily on their IT systems to keep everyday operations up and running. Many organizations require minimal to zero disruption to applications and services, in order to maintain productivity and profitability. However, eliminating IT downtime entirely and achieving true high availability is often easier said than done. What is Fault Tolerance? Fault Tolerance is a property that enables [...]
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 [...]
The news that Broadcom acquired VMware has been widely reported and dissected by experts, media outlets and other companies alike. At StorMagic we recognize VMware’s position within the virtual SAN market and believe that our offering, SvSAN is an ideal alternative or replacement for organizations concerned by the uncertainty surrounding VMware and vSAN. As the infographic shows, adding an ‘S’ [...]
In the ever-evolving landscape of Information Technology (IT), the role of virtualization has become indispensable, and at the heart of this transformative technology lie hypervisors. Also known as virtual machine monitors, hypervisors play a pivotal role in enabling the creation and management of multiple virtual environments on a single physical server. As organizations increasingly seek to optimize resource utilization, enhance [...]
About NISC National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) is an information technology company that develops and supports software and hardware solutions for their member-owners who are primarily utility cooperatives and broadband companies across the United States. NISC is an industry leader providing advanced, integrated IT solutions for consumer and subscriber billing, accounting, engineering and operations, as well as many other [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 -- [...]
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 [...]
Giant Eagle selected StorMagic’s three-node configuration for increased resiliency and availability to deliver a superior end user experience while providing a highly secure platform.
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. [...]
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, [...]
Food Services & Facilities Management Company Relies on StorMagic SvSAN for Simplified, High Performing Hyperconverged IT Infrastructure
Under its vSphere 6.5 release, VMware enabled the ability to encrypt VMs for data-at-rest encryption, a tried-and-true data security approach. This capability has continued through vSphere versions 6.7 and 7.0, and is now available for vSAN encryption. While VMware has made turning on encryption easy, customers require a third-party key management server (KMS) that supports the key management interoperability protocol [...]
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StorMagic SvKMS is a one-of-a-kind key management solution, designed specifically for modern encryption infrastructures. It simplifies complex security configurations by providing a centralized, one-stop approach to key management and enables customers to deploy encryption wherever they need it - whether at the edge, datacenter, or cloud. SvKMS delivers the following benefits to customers: Flexible: SvKMS enables businesses to deploy enterprise [...]
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Many use cases for IT require minimal to zero disruption to applications and services, however achieving zero downtime is a complex task.
Many of today’s organizations are modernizing their traditional IT infrastructure, in an effort to save money, improve performance, and reduce downtime. They are taking steps to virtualize their environments by replacing their clunky, physical IT equipment, with virtualized systems that enable the hyperconvergence of compute, networking, and storage resources. Storage virtualization enables the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
SvSAN is a great solution for bringing high availability to edge sites, which makes it perfect for airports: where uptime is critical.
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