Legacy HCI promised simplicity and handed you three clocks you do not control. The renewal clock belongs to the hypervisor vendor, which ended perpetual licensing and rounds your core count up to a minimum you never asked for. The refresh clock belongs to the server vendor, which decides when working hardware loses support. The hardware clock belongs to the compatibility list, which decides which servers you are allowed to buy at all. This campaign names those charges and shows how a private cloud operating system returns the decisions to you.
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Legacy HCI Took Control of Your Data Center
Live session, Wednesday July 29 at 1:00 PM ET. George Crump, Aaron Richman, and Dave Vincent walk the three clocks and demo what resets them. Bring your renewal quote.
Register for the Webinar →Formica Regains Control and Standardizes on VergeOS
A global manufacturer replaced VMware and StarWind across its sites, consolidated onto one platform, and kept the servers it already owned. The receipts behind the campaign argument.
Read the Case Study →Formica Standardizes Its Global Infrastructure on VergeOS, Replacing VMware and StarWind
The announcement covering the migration, the platforms it replaced, and what standardizing on a single code base changed for the operations team.
Read the Announcement →VergeIO Blogs
Legacy HCI Took Control of Your Data Center
The written version of the campaign argument. Three separate countdowns now run your infrastructure calendar, and none of them started with you. This post names each clock and identifies who owns it.
Read the Post →Social Media
Three Clocks You No Longer Control
The one-minute version of the campaign argument. Legacy HCI promised to simplify the data center and instead set three clocks you do not own, your renewal date, your hardware refresh, and the servers you are allowed to buy.
View on X →Two Products Became One Platform
The Formica result in one post. Thirteen sites moved off VMware vSphere and StarWind vSAN, new sites come online in under 10 minutes, and the existing hardware now runs to 2034.
View on X →I Can Go Days Without Looking at the Cluster
The long-form version of the Formica story. A small IT team, 13 sites, a broad evaluation of KVM-based platforms, and the numbers that followed. Processing jobs went from 40 to 50 minutes down to roughly 25, and hardware in Europe now runs to 2034 instead of being replaced.
View on LinkedIn →Industry Articles
Storage Trade Coverage of the Formica Migration
StorageNewsletter carried the announcement on July 28. The pickup keeps the numbers intact, the sub-10-minute site deployment, the drop from 40 to 50 minutes down to roughly 25, and the hardware extended to 2034.
Read the Coverage →VMblog on Formica Replacing VMware and StarWind
Virtualization trade coverage. VMblog reaches the VMware administrator population this campaign is aimed at, which makes it the most on-target of the three pickups.
Read the Coverage →Wire Distribution of the Formica Announcement
The release as it went out over the wire. Use this one when someone wants the announcement itself rather than a publication’s framing of it.
Read the Coverage →More to Come
This campaign is still in flight. The white paper, additional posts on VergeIO and industry properties, and the on-demand playback page for the live webinar all land over the next several weeks. Check back as each one publishes.