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    • Overview
      Learn about VergeOS’ unique unfied architecture that integrates virtualization, storage, networking, AI, backup and DR into a single data center operating system
    • Infrastructure Wide Deduplication
      VergeOS transforms deduplication from a storage-only commodity into a native, infrastructure-wide capability that spans storage, virtualization, and networking, eliminating hidden resource taxes
    • VergeFS
      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.
    • Infrastructure Automation
      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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      Unlock secure, on-premises generative AI—natively integrated into VergeOS. With VergeIQ, your enterprise gains private AI capabilities without the complexity, cloud dependency, or token-based pricing.
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    • Virtual Data Centers
      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
    • High Availability
      VergeOS provides a unified, easy-to-manage infrastructure that ensures continuous high availability through automated failover, storage efficiency, clone-like snapshots, and simplified disaster recovery
    • ioClone
      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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      ioFortify creates immutable, restorable VDC checkpoints and provides proactive ransomware detection with instant alerts for rapid recovery and response.
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      ioMigrate enables large-scale VMware migrations, automating the rehosting of hundreds of VMs (including networking settings) in seconds with minimal downtime by seamlessly transitioning entire VMware environments onto existing hardware stacks.
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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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      ioOptimize leverages AI and machine learning to seamlessly integrate new and old hardware and automatically migrate workloads from aging or failing servers.
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      ioGuardian is VergeIO’s built-in data protection and recovery capability, providing near-continuous backup and rapid VM recovery during multiple simultaneous drive or server failures.
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      VergeOS offers seamless migration from VMware, enhancing performance and scalability by consolidating virtualization, storage, and networking into a single, efficient platform.
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      VergeIO’s page introduces ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI) via VergeOS, which overcomes HCI limitations by supporting external storage, scaling compute and storage independently, using existing hardware, simplifying provisioning, boosting resiliency, and cutting licensing costs.
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      VergeIO’s storage by replacing aging SAN/NAS systems within its ultraconverged infrastructure, enhancing security, scalability, and affordability.
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      Legacy infrastructure is fragmented, complex, and costly, built from disconnected components. VergeOS unifies virtualization, storage, networking, data protection, and AI into one platform, simplifying operations and reducing expenses.
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      VergeIO's Secure Research Computing solution combines speed, isolation, compliance, scalability, and resilience in a cohesive platform. It’s ideal for institutions needing segmented, compliant compute environments that are easy to deploy, manage, and recover.
    • Venues, Remote Offices, and Edge
      VergeOS delivers resiliency and centralized management across Edge, ROBO, and Venue environments. With one platform, IT can keep remote sites independent while managing them all from a single pane of glass.
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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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How IT Teams Run Their Infrastructure on VergeOS

Full customer stories from the people who did the work. Read how each team chose VergeOS, how the migration ran, and what changed afterward. No registration required.

Every organization on this page replaced a separate hypervisor, storage, and networking stack with VergeOS, one operating system that runs virtualization, storage, networking, and data protection from a single code base. They span sports entertainment, insurance, gaming, manufacturing, K-12 and local government, higher education and university research, cloud and managed services, telecommunications, pharmacy retail and tourism, and each story includes the numbers, the obstacles, and the lessons in the customer’s own words.

Sports Entertainment

Topgolf Standardizes on VergeOS Across 100+ Venues

Topgolf moved roughly 12,000 virtual machines to three-node VergeOS clusters on Dell PowerEdge, cut fleet upgrades from months to three weeks, and runs every venue from one control plane.

ReplacedDell VxRailRubrik
100+Venues standardized on VergeOS
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Higher Education Research

University of Michigan Revolutionizes Research

U-M’s ARC-TS gives 2,600 research groups secure enclaves for HIPAA and CUI data on demand, with no data center recertification.

ReplacedPer-group IT builds
2,600Research groups supported
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Manufacturing

Formica Regains Control, Standardizes on VergeOS

A lean global IT team at Formica, part of the Broadview Group, cut VM job times nearly in half, went days between cluster check-ins, and extended hardware life to 15 years.

ReplacedVMwareStarWind vSAN
15 yrsHardware life with VergeOS
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Tourism and Hospitality

SkiBig3 Replaces Hyper-V with VergeIO

Banff’s ski booking team chose VergeOS over VMware and public cloud for immutable snapshots, high availability and lower cost.

ReplacedHyper-V
<1 monthOf cloud cost buys a year of VergeOS
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Gaming & Hospitality

Saratoga Casino Holdings Owns Its Stack Again

A four-property gaming operator left a mandated Cisco UCS and Pure Storage stack and rigid appliance vendors behind. VergeOS now runs on hardware the team chose itself, with lower cost and the same performance.

ReplacedVMwareCisco UCSPure Storage
4Properties standardized on VergeOS
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Higher Education

Pfeiffer University Modernizes and Saves 85 Percent

A small private university traded a runaway licensing renewal for a hardware-agnostic platform, repurposed five-year-old servers, and turned the migration into a senior capstone project.

ReplacedVMware
85%Infrastructure savings
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K-12 Education

ACSG Modernizes Four New Jersey School Districts

ACSG, a SilverSky company, standardized four New Jersey districts on VergeOS, replacing VMware, scattered Hyper-V hosts and failing SANs with one repeatable model.

ReplacedVMwareHyper-VDell SAN
5 → 3Hyper-V hosts consolidated at Hammonton
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K-12 Education

Lancaster Central School District Leaves VMware

After more than 15 years on VMware, the District replaced ESXi and vSAN with VergeOS, gaining instant snapshots, better deduplication and outage resilience.

ReplacedVMware ESXiVMware vSAN
$150KSaved per year
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Education & Government

St. Clair County RESA Beats the 1-2-3 Punch

A Michigan intermediate school district replaced its hypervisor, compute, storage and backup layers with VergeOS, reached 16:1 deduplication and paid back the project in about two and a half years.

ReplacedVMwareCisco UCSSolidFireQNAP
16:1Global inline deduplication
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Education and Local Government

How K-12 Districts and Municipalities Use VergeOS

St. Clair County RESA, Lancaster CSD and the City of Saint Peters extended hardware life, retired separate backup tools and isolated every tenant on one platform.

ReplacedVMwareSANsSeparate backup
$500KRefresh avoided at Saint Peters
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Managed Services and Cloud Services

NETdepot Switches from VMware to VergeIO

A cloud and bare metal provider replaced VMware, Cloud Director and NSX with VergeOS to compete with AWS and Equinix on price, protection and support.

ReplacedVMwareCloud DirectorNSXExternal storage
80%+Estimated infrastructure savings
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Managed Services and Cloud Services

CenterGrid Breaks Through the Software Roadblock

This MSP and media-and-entertainment specialist dropped per-core licensing and the virtualization tax, going from pilot to production in under a week.

ReplacedLegacy hypervisor stack
<1 weekPilot to production
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Managed Services and Cloud Services

CCSI Enhances IT Services with VergeIO and Inuvika

CCSI replaced VMware ESXi and Horizon with VergeOS and Inuvika OVD, booting desktops six times faster and scaling DaaS, IaaS and DRaaS on one platform.

ReplacedVMware ESXiVMware HorizonvSAN
6xFaster desktop boot times
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Managed Services and Cloud Services

BEAR Technologies Converts in 45 Days

Facing a seven-figure licensing jump, this IaaS provider converted its existing servers to VergeOS one at a time in under 45 days.

ReplacedVMware
<45 daysFull VMware-to-VergeOS conversion
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Insurance

Alinsco Insurance Turns Plan B Into Plan A

Alinsco converted its five-node VxRail production cluster to VergeOS one node at a time, during business hours, and runs faster on the same hardware.

ReplacedVMwareVxRailStorMagic
0Maintenance windows for the migration
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Telecommunications

InterBel Telephone Finishes Under Budget

A one-person IT team in Montana replaced aging UCS, NetApp and VMware with VergeOS on Lenovo and finished the refresh more than 28% under budget.

ReplacedVMwareCisco UCSNetAppDell EMC
45%+Savings vs. VMware pricing
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Pharmacy Retail

Farmaplus Bets on VergeIO and Belite

With partner Belite, Farmaplus moved off a traditional hypervisor to VergeOS in two weeks and runs its critical databases on the integrated vSAN.

ReplacedTraditional hypervisor
2 weeksFrom node arrival to full deployment
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