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 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 consequently [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
Cisco’s announcement of HyperFlex’s end-of-life has come as a surprise to many of its customers. Feelings of concern and uncertainty about what the future holds are understandable, even with Cisco proposing alternatives for their soon-to-be-retired solution. In this blog we will explore Cisco HyperFlex’s EOL, detailing what it means for customers, what is being proposed as its direct replacement, and [...]
While the data storage demands of organizations have increased, due to a number of factors, many companies’ IT budgets have shrunk. This has driven organizations to seek out and re-evaluate costly, complex traditional storage models, in favor of lightweight software-defined and hyperconverged storage models. The capabilities of virtualization-based products can vary from solution to solution. The challenges that organizations face [...]
As the demands for enterprise storage continue to expand and the digital landscape shifts, so too does the need for innovative solutions that streamline operations, enhance data management, and improve overall efficiency. The technology of choice that’s emerged as a game changer in the digital storage space is the virtual storage appliance (sometimes referred to as VSA) which has dominated [...]
Over the years, mindsets towards onsite IT have changed drastically — particularly when it comes to retail store infrastructure. With a focus on virtualizing their environments and creating more efficient retail data storage, many retailers are moving away from traditional storage infrastructure in favor of solutions that offer de-centralized application control, with centralized management systems. With this in mind, it’s [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.