Overview Many organizations nowadays are heavily dependent 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 huge impact on an organization. Adding high availability to a business’s infrastructure is like adding in an insurance [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
StorMagic’s Technical Services team has developed a new series of instructional videos, to help train our customers and partners on how to set up, configure, and manage the general operation of our software products. These videos will include tutorials for SvSAN, our virtual SAN product, and SvKMS, our encryption key manager. SvSAN is the first solution covered in this portion [...]
Modern organizations rely heavily on technology to carry out everyday operations. From order processing, to managing inventory, to communication, and administrative work, technology is a vital component to today’s businesses, and they depend on the functionality of their IT systems to keep them up and running. When technologies fail or are down for repair, organizations are left to deal with [...]
StorMagic’s Witness as-a-Service (WaaS) product was recognized as the “Overall Data Storage Solution of the Year” in the 2021 Data Breakthrough Awards. We are so thrilled to be celebrating this achievement, and to be acknowledged as a leader in the data storage space! The Data Breakthrough Awards recognize the best companies, products and services in this new era of digital [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week, the world celebrated the release of the Raspberry Pi 4: the miniature computer that is known for being a versatile tool of innovation. In appreciation, we’ve compiled three of our favorite uses of the Raspberry Pi: In California, Adarash Ambati realised that the average American household is wasting a whopping 25% of their total water usage on over-watering [...]
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 [...]