Free White Paper · May 2026
The Architecture for Resilience Without Lock-In
A two-layer protection model that holds together during a hypervisor transition and stays durable after it. Twelve minutes of architecture.
VergeIO White Paper · May 2026
End-to-End Data Continuity for the Post-VMware Enterprise
Most VMware customers will run two hypervisors at once for months. Backup tooling that only knows how to talk to one of them becomes a second migration project on top of the first. This paper details the architecture that survives the transition and stays durable after it.
What You'll Learn
Five answers worth the registration
The paper is built around the architectural questions an infrastructure team actually asks during a VMware transition. Each section answers one of them.
1
Why a single product cannot cover both protection layers
The architectural reason infrastructure-only protection and backup-only protection each fail half the test, and what to put in their place.
2
How to protect data across two hypervisors at once
The transition window is the hard part. The paper details how a multi-hypervisor backup vendor under a universal license eliminates the operational drag.
3
The two-layer model that produces ransomware resilience as a property of the design
Immutability at the platform layer through ioClone snapshots, plus immutability at the backup tier through object lock. Defense in depth, not bolt-on.
4
What recovery looks like during a hypervisor migration
VMware-to-VergeOS recovery as a planned capability, not an emergency procedure. Plus deployment model, sizing recommendations, and testing cadence.
5
Who does what — VergeOS and Storware role-by-role
Twelve data continuity roles mapped against both products, including the three rows where defense in depth requires both layers to contribute.
The Numbers Behind It
Why the architecture has to change
The data behind the paper, sourced and footnoted throughout. Three figures that tell the story.
96%
of ransomware attacks now target backup repositories
Veeam 2024
55%
of enterprises will run POCs for VMware alternatives by 2028
Gartner 2025
61%
of restore attempts produce the intended outcome
Backblaze 2024
From the Paper
What architects who have read it say
"Heterogeneous environments are the norm now, not the exception." — Paweł Mączka, CTO, Storware (quoted in the paper)