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      Learn about VergeOS’ unique unfied architecture that integrates virtualization, storage, networking, AI, backup and DR into a single data center operating system
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      VergeOS transforms deduplication from a storage-only commodity into a native, infrastructure-wide capability that spans storage, virtualization, and networking, eliminating hidden resource taxes
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      VergeFS is a distributed, high-performance global file system integrated into VergeOS, unifying storage across nodes, tiers, and workloads while eliminating the need for external SANs
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      VergeFabric is VergeOS’s integrated virtual networking layer, delivering high-speed, low-latency communication across nodes while eliminating the complexity of traditional network configurations.
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      VergeOS integrates Packer, Terraform, and Ansible to deliver an end-to-end automation pipeline that eliminates infrastructure drift and enables predictable, scalable deployments.
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      A VergeOS Virtual Data Center (VDC) is a fully isolated, self-contained environment within a single VergeOS instance that includes its own compute, storage, networking, and management controls
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      ioClone utilizes global inline deduplication and a blockchain-inspired file system within VergeFS to create instant, independent, space-efficient, and immutable snapshots of individual VMs, volumes, or entire virtual data centers.
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      ioReplicate is a unified disaster-recovery solution that enables simple, cost-efficient DR testing and failover via three‑click recovery of entire Virtual Data Centers—including VMs, networking, and storage.
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      ioProtect offers near-real-time replication of VMware VMs—including data, network, and compute configurations—to a remote disaster‑recovery site on existing hardware, slashing DR costs by over 60% while supporting seamless failover and testing in an efficient, turnkey VergeOS Infrastructure.
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      • VMware Migration Testing Is Critical to Completing Your ExitVMware migration testing decides whether your exit finishes. VergeOS keeps the VMware image, takes instant snapshots and isolates each workload in a VDC.
      • How to Use Hard Drive Tiering to Fight Data Center InflationHard drive tiering is back. See how VergeOS lets you pick each drive's tier, move it live, and put the long tail on $56/TB disk instead of $706/TB flash.
      • Leave No VM BehindA complete VMware migration includes clustered SQL Server. VergeOS 26.2 shortens cutover and protects critical workloads inside isolated VDCs.
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VergeIO · VergeOS Overview

Infrastructure Software
That Replaces VMware

  • A single piece of software for your entire infrastructure
  • Runs bare metal on the servers you already own
  • Mixes vendors and generations in one cluster
  • Private AI on your own GPUs
An Infrastructure Operating System
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About VergeIO

The Team Behind Every Deployment

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Parag Patel
Parag Patel
Chief Executive Officer
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Greg Campbell
Greg Campbell
Founder and CTO
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In Production
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Strategic Alliances
Veeam NVIDIA Solidigm Intel
  • A founder’s vision. Greg Campbell, VergeIO’s original founder and current CTO, set out to simplify IT infrastructure with a single, unified infrastructure operating system.
  • A stronger company. Parag Patel is CEO, with the same product and engineering team and a board that includes former VMware CTO Kit Colbert.
  • Proven in production. Hundreds of VMware migrations now run in production on VergeOS, including multi-site customers such as Topgolf and Saratoga Casino.
  • Strategic alliances. VergeIO partners with Veeam, NVIDIA, Solidigm and Intel.
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What Makes Us Different

Every Function. Unified Infrastructure.

Hypervisor Storage Networking Backup Disaster Recovery API API API API API VergeOS Infrastructure OS Unified infrastructure Hypervisor Storage Networking Backup DR
Five products, five upgrades, five vendors. One platform, one unified infrastructure.
  • VergeOS runs compute, storage, networking, and data protection as one unified infrastructure.
  • One install turns standard x86 servers into a complete infrastructure, including the DR site.
  • One upgrade moves the whole environment forward, so the maintenance window shrinks to hours.
  • An operating system, not a stack, means less overhead and a smaller footprint than assembled products, so the same physical servers hold more VMs.
One InfrastructureOne InterfaceOne Vendor
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Where Teams Start

Four Ways Customers Put It to Work

Most environments arrive through one of these four doors and then expand into the others, since the same platform answers all four.

01
Exit VMware
Virtual machines import from the running VMware environment and come up on VergeOS with their storage and networking intact. Applications stay as they are.
02
Fight Data Center Inflation
Stretch the hardware you already own. VergeOS mixes server generations in one cluster, runs on refurbished nodes, and uses less RAM and storage per workload, so the next purchase order moves out a year or more.
03
Run Every Site the Same Way
From one place. Every location runs the same VergeOS and takes the same upgrade, automated with Terraform, Ansible, and Packer. A remote site becomes part of the environment, not its own project.
04
Reduce Token Costs
Models run on GPUs inside your own tenant, on the same operating system that runs production. The per-token bill goes away, and prompts and data stay on your network.
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Exit VMware

Migrate One Server at a Time. No Big Bang.

Production on three VMware hosts vMotion the VMs off host 3 Reimage host 3 with VergeOS Full backup of host 2’s VMs into VergeOS Test the copies on VergeOS Incremental backup: changed blocks only Cutover: the VMs now run on VergeOS Reimage host 2 with VergeOS Spread the VMs across both VergeOS hosts Full backup of host 1’s VMs to both VergeOS hosts Test the copies on VergeOS Incremental backup: changed blocks only Cutover: the VMs now run on VergeOS Reimage host 1 with VergeOS One VergeOS cluster on the same three servers VMware ESXiServer 1 VergeOSServer 1 VMware ESXiServer 2 VergeOSServer 2 VMware ESXiServer 3 VergeOSServer 3 VM 1 VM 2 VM 3 VM 4 VM 5 VM 6 VM 7 VM 8 VM 4 VM 5 VM 6 VM 8 VM 1 VM 2 VM 3 VM 7 VERGEOS · ONE CLUSTER, SAME HARDWARE
  1. 1Start. Three VMware hosts running production.
  2. 2Free host 3. vMotion its VMs to the other two and reimage it with VergeOS.
  3. 3Move host 2’s VMs. Back up into VergeOS, test, run an incremental, cut over.
  4. 4Convert host 2. Reimage it and spread the VMs across both VergeOS hosts.
  5. 5Move host 1’s VMs. Back up to both VergeOS hosts, test, incremental, cut over.
  6. 6Finish. Reimage host 1 and spread the VMs across all three.
Plays automatically · Replay to restart
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Exit VMware · Recorded Demo

Back Up From vSphere. Boot on VergeOS.

01Refresh the connector and back up

Refresh VMs rediscovers the vSphere inventory. The Alpine VM, still running in vSphere, gets a differential backup into VergeOS, and the job finishes Complete.

02Import, configure, and boot

Import from that backup, keep the MAC address, and pick the storage tier. Switch the boot disk to SATA, then power on with a snapshot as the safety net and watch Alpine boot.

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What It Looks Like

Mixed Hardware. One Platform.

VDC 01 Finance Dept · Enterprise Isolated tenant VM VM VM VM VM VM VDC 02 Acme Corp · CSP Customer Isolated tenant VM VM VM VM VM VM VDC 03 Dev/Test Lab · Enterprise Isolated tenant VM VM VM VM VM VM VERGEOS Dell HPE Cisco UCS Supermicro
Three isolated tenants, one operating system, four server vendors in the same cluster.
  • Step 1. Install VergeOS on your hardware. Dell, HPE, Cisco UCS, and Supermicro run side by side in the same cluster, including older generations and refurbished nodes.
  • Step 2. Migrate your VMs to the new infrastructure. They come across with their data and network settings intact.
  • Step 3. Use the capabilities VergeOS adds, starting with virtual data centers that give each department or customer its own isolated compute, storage, network, and protection.
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Fight Data Center Inflation

Put Every Drive on the Right Tier. Live.

How a tier move works (VergeOS) SQL Server VM Online · serving queries OS 80 GB Tier 1 Data 200 GB Tier 1 moving… Tier 4 Log 40 GB Tier 1 TempDB 40 GB Tier 1 Backup 150 GB Tier 4 Storage media cost $263 Saved $130 · 49% Tier 1 · NVMe Performance: OS, transaction log, tempdb Tier 4 · HDD High capacity, cost-effective OS80 GB Log40 GB TempDB40 GB Backup150 GB Data200 GB Data200 GB Preferred Tier changed: Tier 1 → Tier 4 · live, online background migration Move complete · no downtime Capacity after the move Flash 160 GB HDD 350 GB · 69% of the VM
  • One setting per drive. Change the preferred tier and VergeOS moves the data in the background.
  • No downtime. The SQL Server VM stays online and keeps serving queries.
  • Flash where it counts. OS, log, and tempdb stay on NVMe. Bulk data moves to high-capacity HDD.
  • $263 to $133. The VM’s storage media cost drops 49%.
Cost basis: raw media at $706/TB for a 15.36 TB NVMe SSD and $56/TB for a 24 TB HDD, street prices September 28, 2026. Excludes redundancy copies.
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Fight Data Center Inflation · Recorded Demo

Move a Live SQL Server Disk to Hard Drives.

  • Two screens. VergeOS on the left. On the right, a monitor querying a live SQL Server VM every second.
  • One change. The SQL data disk’s preferred tier moves from Tier 1 NVMe to Tier 5 hard drives.
  • Live migration. VergeOS moves the data in the background while the VM stays online.
  • No interruption. The monitor keeps returning rows at a steady rate the whole time.
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Built-In Data Protection

Protection Built Into the Platform

SERVER 1 SERVER 2 SERVER 3 VM 1VM 2 VM 5VM 6 VM 3VM 4 VM 3 VM 4 SERVER 2 FAILED VMS RESTARTED ON SURVIVING SERVERS
01ioOptimize
VMs restart across the surviving servers.
VMHEALTHYBAD CHANGERESTORED -6h -5h -4h -3h -2h -1h HOURLY SNAPSHOTS
02Frequent Snapshots
Roll back to the last good hour.
THIS SITEREMOTE VERGEOS BLOCKS LOST BEYOND REDUNDANCYSELF-HEALED FROM REMOTE COPY
03ioGuardian
Lost blocks stream back from a remote site.
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Reduce Token Costs

Ask AI About Your Data. Keep the Data.

Where your data goes
YOUR NETWORK Your question + six data files ×6 External AI service someone else’s platform OUTSIDE YOUR CONTROL TOKEN BILL CLIMBING $1,250$4,800$11,600$24,900$47,300$82,100$134,500$208,000$312,000$465,000 Illustrative example. $$$$$$ leaves your network Model on VergeOS your own infrastructure GPU GPU YOUR DATA TOKEN BILL $0 stays inside no external API calls or data transmission Ask an AI about your data: where does it go? An external AI service: every prompt rings up token costs A model on VergeOS: they stay on your own infrastructure No external API calls. No data transmission. Same question. No token bill on GPUs you own.
01Same question, two paths
An external AI service needs your files on someone else’s platform before it can answer.
02The data stays inside
A model on VergeOS runs on your own infrastructure. No external API calls, no data transmission.
03Same OS as production
Models run on GPUs inside your own tenant, next to the workloads and data they use.
04No per-token bill
Models run on GPUs you own, so the cost of AI stops climbing with every prompt.
Your DataYour ModelsYour GPUsYour Rules
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Reduce Token Costs · Recorded Demo

Private AI on Your Own Platform.

01A local AI agent builds 20 VMs

The agent’s model runs in a VM on VergeOS with two GPUs passed straight through and drives the VergeOS CLI. Asked for 20 Ubuntu VMs, it builds and powers them on, then stops and deletes them on request.

02Ask your own data

A business user attaches six webinar attendance exports (simulated data) and asks the same local model for an analysis, trends, and who sales should call first. The files never leave the platform.

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Why You Should Care

Simpler to Run, Cheaper to Own, Ready for What Is Next

IT leaders are asked to run more sites, more workloads, and more data with the same team. The platform has to give that time back.

01
Simplify Your Life
One interface covers virtual machines, storage, networking, snapshots, and failover. Your team stops moving between four consoles, four support contracts, and four upgrade calendars.
02
Lower Cost
A single license replaces the hypervisor, the array software, and the backup product. The servers stay. The savings repeat at every renewal rather than once at purchase.
03
Future Ready
Add a second site, a new tenant, or a GPU cluster for AI from the same platform. The architecture holds as the requirements change, which protects the decision you make today.
Licensed per Physical Server~45% Savings vs. VMware
Regardless of sockets, cores, or storage capacity
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VergeIO · Thank You

Run Your Entire Infrastructure on Hardware You Already Own

Integrated storage, built-in data protection, and site-to-site DR come with the platform. Bring the servers you have and the workloads you want back.

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