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July 29, 2022 by Verge.IO

June 24, 2020 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

SOUTHFIELD, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VergeIO, a software defined data center (SDDC) company, today announces the release of VergeOS.

The exponential growth of data creation and use is driving an in-step demand for the data center’s core functions. Unlike traditional methods that rely heavily on hardware to scale, VergeIO has taken a sustainable software-based approach to scale, capable of reducing physical footprint and energy consumption by nearly 50 percent while simultaneously reducing capital expenditure by nearly 50 percent.

“Every once in a while, something comes along that shakes up the world and shifts the trajectory of all things that follow. I believe VergeOS has this potential and likely constitutes one of the largest paradigm shifts to the IT industry in the last 20 years,” said Chief Executive Officer Matt Wenzler. “The secret lies in the platform’s unified architecture. Our platform empowers IT generalists to do the job of many specialists and reduces vendor management from many to one. We significantly move all of the important needles in the right direction.”

VergeOS is a novel software solution that represents a transformative improvement in the unification of function resulting in performance increases, price efficiencies, and overall simplification of management. By eliminating the disparate interfacing functions of a typical multi-vendor deployment, the platform’s unified architecture seamlessly delivers all the expected benefits of the modern hyperconverged system under a single license.

This same unified architecture demystifies data center management. Resultantly, the required knowledge base to perform even complex activities is reduced to a generalist level. Once installed, the platform makes it possible to create separate and individually secure data centers in a matter of minutes. By removing the necessity for siloed expertise, coupled with the platform’s automation and intelligence, customers using VergeOS cite a 25 to 50 percent reduction in technical operational headcount required to service the environment.

Clive Swanepoel, owner of ZebraHost and current Verge customer explains, “The security, resilience and scalability of our VergeIO Cloud has resulted in reduced support requests from customers. The intuitive dashboard and the speed with which tasks can be completed is groundbreaking.”

VergeOS is deployed in large cloud service providers, data science, and corporate enterprises. VergeIO has a particularly effective value proposition for the resource and compliance driven data pools required by data science and research institutions where over 2,500 research groups are already leveraging VergeOS. VergeIO is uniquely positioned with a proven solution backed by years of experience with SDDC deployments.

“The demand for new workloads has exceeded the industry’s ability to provision technology in a timely and cost-effective manner using traditional methods of scaling infrastructure with disparate hardware,” says VergeIO Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Greg Campbell. “VergeOS replaces unique and expensive hardware appliances with scalable intelligent software that uses building block commodity hardware. The result is less hardware and more software to solve a growing concern.”

ABOUT VergeIO

VergeIO is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company based in Michigan. VergeOS is a novel software solution that sustainably creates and manages software defined data centers. For more information visit www.verge.io.

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July 29, 2022 by Verge.IO

I read that there are 21 million cores running Open Stack clouds.

That’s a lot of workloads.

Lately we’ve been hearing that IT leaders are struggling to find Open Stack (and other) cloud engineers. The complexity of deploying, sizing and maintaining an OpenStack environment often requires an outsourcing partner (there are many…for a reason), hiring an expensive staff with certifications or investing in staff training.

Has OpenStack become too complex?

OpenStack is now 20 million lines of code added incrementally, over time, to address yet another layer of virtualization.  It’s a really cool product, but I wonder if it’s gotten too complex. And I doubt it’ll fit well for the workloads of the future – workloads that will run everywhere, outside the cloud, and to the edge itself, often with no staff around

To run those workloads, and to lighten the staffing challenges of OpenStack (and other technologies) we will all need a thin single piece of software that abstracts the entire data center, runs on commodity x86 hardware and can be managed by an IT generalist. That’s what we built at VergeIO. In only 300,000 lines of code we’ve virtualized the entire data center allowing you to run workloads outside the cloud with few staff.

Take VergeIO for a test drive today and see what software can feel like with VergeIO!

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July 29, 2022 by Verge.IO

April 23, 2019 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VergeIO, Inc. is pleased to announce they joined the Merit Marketplace in order to provide Merit’s members with a comprehensive private cloud solution powered by VergeIO software. In a strategic partnership between VergeIO and Merit Network, members of the Merit Marketplace can experience an affordable turnkey alternative to the traditional on-premises data center solution.

“As a Michigan based solution provider, we are delighted to partner with Merit Network and join the Merit Marketplace,” said Mike Aloe, COO of VergeIO. “Joining the Marketplace will bring us closer to the extended members of the Merit Network community. We look forward to serving Merit’s members with our best in breed cloud technology while further improving their IT infrastructure capabilities. ”

VergeIO, a software company specializing in virtualization of the data center, prides itself on offering a homogeneous system designed for the IT generalist. The Merit Marketplace offers a wide variety of software, training and services that are critical to research and education organizations. Through strong relationships and the power of collective bargaining, Merit and their vendors offer exclusive discounts to help their Membership run their organizations.

“Our goal is to provide a wide variety of high-quality services at exclusive discounts through our partnerships,” said Pierrette Renée Widmeyer, Director of Communications and Marketing at Merit Network. “We are excited to offer our members VergeIO’s cloud solution and professional services through the Merit Marketplace.”

To highlight the benefits of a cloud powered by VergeIO, VergeIO will be at the Merit Member Conference on May 8-9, 2019 at the Henry Hotel in Dearborn, Michigan. At the Conference, members of the Merit Community can learn about VergeIO’s approach to cloud computing, whether that entails running VergeIO software on-premises, in a private cloud, or as a hybrid of the two.

VergeIO looks forward to assisting members of the Merit Marketplace by providing a comprehensive IT solution that surpasses the current needs of IT services.

About VergeIO

VergeIO is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company headquartered in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. VergeIO offers a fully integrated cloud software stack that was built with simplicity and completeness in mind for managed service providers and enterprise IT teams to build, deploy, and manage cloud data centers and services.

About Merit Network

Merit Network is a non-profit, member-owned organization that provides high-performance networking and services to research and education communities. Founded by Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan, Merit pioneered many of the practices and protocols used in today’s Internet.

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July 29, 2022 by Verge.IO

Mike Fisher has joined VergeIO, Inc. as a Regional Sales Director. Mike has 20 years of experience  selling the latest infrastructure hardware and software, primarily with early stage companies. He’s been successful selling Data Storage, Backup and Recovery, Data Deduplication, Virtualization, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, SAN, NAS, HCI, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hybrid Cloud, Flash, Nearline SAS, Mainframe, and Audit & Compliance System Security.

Mike has worked for some of the most successful brands in the space. “We’re very excited to attract a sales professional of Mike’s caliber. It’s further evidence of VergeIO’s incredible potential.” says Chris Lehman, Sr. VP of Sales at VergeIO.

Mike joins a growing team of go to market professionals at VergeIO. “VergeIO does to the data center what VMWare did to the server. That level of virtualization is transformative. I can’t wait to share it with the world.” said Mike Fisher.

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July 29, 2022 by Verge.IO

Everyone needs a Plan B

One of the reasons I continue to love the technology industry so much is that it never stands still. For a long-time fan of Charles Handy, it definitely follows his mantra of good companies requiring constant product evolution, even if those products never take off. 

Innovate or die is the ideology we have to live by. The recent announcements surrounding Broadcom and VMWare came as no surprise. I’m not claiming I was forecasting it, but it’s in line with what has been happening in the industry throughout my career. 

I’m lucky enough to have a first edition of Geoffrey Moore’s seminal Crossing the chasm.  I hand the book out to the teams of every company I work with. The later editions no longer have the case studies Geoffrey mentioned back in 1993. Why would they? No one in their 20’s , 30’s and even 40’s has ever heard of Wang or Netscape (they were the Dell/EMC’s  and Google Chrome of their day )…but that’s the point it makes very clearly; just because your industry is currently dominated by a behemoth, don’t be intimidated. Everyone has their day. It’s pretty predictable; hot startup company hits a niche or new market, buys another complimentary company, has to maintain growth for the investors, buys more best of breed companies…suddenly managing the integration between 50+ companies is a huge effort and innovation dies. Complexity overtakes everything.

Innovate or die. It’s the ideology we live by in our industry. 

So it’s not a bad thing to have a plan B, because that plan B may become your plan A. VergeIO is a great plan B for VMWare customers not satisfied with their Plan A’s new entrant, Broadcom. 

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July 29, 2022 by Verge.IO

May 21, 2019 09:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VergeIO, Inc. announced today that West Island College (WIC), a leading co-educational, university preparatory and bilingual day school for students in Grades 7 to 12 in Calgary, Alberta Canada, leverages VergeIO software to combine its storage, compute, and networking needs into one fully integrated operating system.

VergeIO, a software company specializing in virtualization of the data center, offers a homogenous cloud data center system in order to streamline cloud computing for businesses and institutions alike. By running VergeIO software on-premises, WIC is able to experience high performing hyperconvergence while reducing overall data center complexity.

“After consulting various hypervisors, storage providers, and hyperconverged vendors, we determined VergeIO was the only vendor able to provide the speed, reliability, and affordability requirements we had,” said Mitch Matula, Chief Technology Officer at WIC. “The ongoing support has been unparalleled and WIC looks forward to its continued partnership with VergeIO.”

WIC is dedicated to enriching their academic program, ensuring rigor and relevance for today’s learners. With VergeIO’s virtual data center software platform, WIC is able to provide its student and business services to its community. WIC has not incurred any unplanned downtime since implementing the VergeIO system.

“The trust and reliability we have with VergeIO strengthens our school,” explained Matula. “VergeIO allows our IT resources to focus on improving teaching and learning rather than maintaining infrastructure and services. Students and teachers are encouraged to innovate with technology in the school knowing their IT infrastructure can support them in any endeavor.”

Education and research organizations like WIC are constantly looking to improve services in order to better support their staff and students alike. As technology becomes more demanding, so do their standards. VergeIO looks forward to continuing to assist other organizations like WIC by providing a comprehensive IT solution that surpasses the current needs of IT services.

About West Island College

West Island College is a leading co-educational, university preparatory and bilingual day school for students in Grades 7 to 12. Our exceptional teachers and staff inspire and empower our students to be passionate and creative problem solvers, ready to contribute to a better world.

At WIC, we embrace big thinking, global perspectives and risk taking. Our innovative and creative programs are rigorous and designed to give our students unparalleled real-world learning opportunities, while preparing them to be future leaders and change makers.

About VergeIO

VergeIO, Inc. is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company headquartered in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. VergeIO offers one product with multiple solutions that streamlines the cloud experience. VergeIO’s components are fully integrated so IT teams can build, deploy, and manage nested multi-tenant cloud data centers and services in minutes.

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