The challenges posed by edge computing are highly prevalent across all industries and growing still today. Acutely aware of this, StorMagic’s team of experts has been working tirelessly for over a decade to bring SMEs affordable solutions that help to tackle these challenges without sacrificing enterprise-class features or application performance. Since joining forces with HPE back in March 2020, we [...]
Within the last decade, advancements in technology have transformed the way datacenters are designed. Organizations today are creating and managing more data than ever, and IT infrastructures have evolved to meet their growing needs. Hyperconverged and composable infrastructures are two popular configurations within the IT space, ideally suited for particular environments, but not others. In this blog, we’ll discuss the [...]
Your video guide to StorMagic SvSAN 6.3 StorMagic SvSAN 6.3 enables highly available virtualized shared storage by leveraging the internal storage of two standard x86 servers and mirroring the data between them. It is a simple, cost-effective solution that allows organizations with remote, branch, or edge computing locations to eliminate unplanned downtime while ensuring that data processing and applications are [...]
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 [...]
It’s quite normal for organizations to seek the flexibility to work with a variety of different technology vendors. Doing so fosters greater resiliency and less dependency on one supplier. However, the hyperconverged infrastructure market is dominated by proprietary solutions that have extensive system requirements and restrictive compatibility lists that result in hugely expensive, over-provisioned configurations. Vendors that force datacenter-class solutions [...]
IT professionals: If you need to select a hyperconverged infrastructure solution for your organization’s edge sites, do you automatically choose something with high specifications, or take a moment to stop and analyze your actual compute, storage and processing requirements? Why? Because there’s a growing trend among IT professionals where many are deploying all flash HCI solutions that are 10 to [...]
See how StorMagic customers reviewed our virtual SAN solution, SvSAN, with our infographic highlighting the key findings in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer” for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software report. 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 [...]
StorMagic is excited and honored to announce that we’ve been recognized in this year’s Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software report.What is Gartner Peer Insights’ “Voice of the Customer”?The “Voice of the Customer” is a document that synthesizes Gartner Peer Insights’ reviews into insights for IT decision makers. This aggregated peer perspective, along with the individual [...]
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 [...]
StorMagic is thrilled to have been recognized as a “Visionary” in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software. While StorMagic and our solution SvSAN have been included in the report the past four years in a row, this is the first time we’ve made our way into the “Visionary” quadrant. Join us in this recorded webinar for a [...]
StorMagic has been recognized for the fourth year in succession in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software, and has been named as a "Visionary" for the first time. The infographic below celebrates our inclusion and highlights some of our key areas of improvement that we've focused on to ensure our continued recognition. We accredit our recognition as [...]
This past week, Storage Magazine announced the winners of the 2021 Storage Awards (The Storries XVIII), at a black-tie gala in London. StorMagic proudly took home the award for “Hyperconvergence Vendor of the Year,” for the second year in a row! We were recognized in the “Hyperconvergence Vendor of the Year” category for our virtual SAN solution, SvSAN, which delivers [...]
StorMagic is proud to have been included in the Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software report. We have been named a North American Customers’ Choice in the 2021 report. What is Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’? The Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ is a document that synthesizes Gartner Peer Insights’ reviews into [...]
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The 2021 GigaOm Radar Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge names StorMagic SvSAN as a leader and the highest value solution among 12 other HCI vendors. Our focus has consistently been on edge and small datacenter customers, and providing them with a solution designed specifically for their use case. This philosophy has been recognized by GigaOm in their [...]
StorMagic hits the target as a leader at the edge in latest GigaOm Radar Report, covering 13 different HCI vendors The GigaOm Radar Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge provides an unbiased examination of the leading players within the HCI market, assessing each vendor’s capabilities in providing solutions for SMEs and edge computing environments. Complete the form [...]
StorMagic has been recognized in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software for a third consecutive time. Our infographic below celebrates our inclusion and highlights some of our key areas of improvement that we've focused on to ensure our continued recognition. As in the earlier reports, StorMagic was identified as a “Niche Player” in the 2020 Magic Quadrant, [...]
StorMagic SvSAN is a virtual storage appliance (VSA) that provides a lightweight, highly available shared storage solution, with no single points of failure. It is typically deployed on to two servers and performs synchronous mirroring between the servers. Although 2-node clusters deployments are the most common use case for SvSAN, it is possible to scale-out the cluster beyond two servers, [...]
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 [...]