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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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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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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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June 04, 2019 10:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VergeIO, Inc., a software company specializing in virtualization of the data center, announced today that ZebraHost, a leading hosting and technology consulting company, leverages VergeIO software to offer its customers private cloud environments that are secure, resilient, and scalable. Since installing VergeIO software in their data center, ZebraHost has reduced their number of support requests and increased customer satisfaction.

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

VergeIO provides a homogenous cloud data center system that enables Managed Service Providers (MSPs) like ZebraHost to build, deploy, manage, and grow their own virtual data centers. Prior to VergeIO, ZebraHost relied on multiple solutions for their hypervisor, disaster recovery, and backup services. With VergeIO, ZebraHost experiences a fully integrated system that incorporates streamlined cloud services and offers a unique alternative to the public cloud.

“The ability to hand over each and every client their own hypervisor is a game changer,” said Nate Battles, Managing Partner at ZebraHost. “Prior to VergeIO, everything that we really needed in order to handle our day-to-day server management tasks meant spending more on a new hypervisor or expensive licensing for a new tool. With VergeIO, we have the ability to incorporate the hypervisor, the backups, the networking, and the multi-tenancy private clouds that separate our offerings from the public clouds and other service providers.”

With physical data centers in North America, Asia, and Europe, ZebraHost finds the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for businesses of any size and to easily deploy services to their customer base. ZebraHost indicates that VergeIO compliments their commitment to efficiency through quick installation, configuration, and on-going support.

“Our experiences with VergeIO have been incredible,” said Battles. “From the mind-boggling fast set up, to racking, installing and spinning up our first VergeIO cluster within half a day, to the fast response time from the support staff…our experiences have been fantastic.”

Managed services providers (MSPs) like ZebraHost are constantly looking to improve services in order to better support their customers. As technology becomes more demanding, so do their standards. VergeIO looks forward to continuing to deliver comprehensive and unique IT solutions to MSPs like ZebraHost that surpass the current needs of IT services.

About VergeIO

VergeIO is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company headquartered in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. VergeIO offers one product with multiple solutions that streamlines the cloud building 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.

About ZebraHost

ZebraHost is a leading hosting and technology consulting company which specializes in disaster recovery, backup and migration solutions. Since its founding in 2000, ZebraHost has continuously expanded its server management solutions and now has servers in data centers worldwide.

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March 16, 2021 10:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time

METRO DETROIT, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VergeIO and Intequus announced the availability of VergeOS, the first software-defined data center operating system, for pre-installation on Intequus hardware. The collaboration drastically accelerates the deployment of edge virtual data centers by coupling the customizability and reliability of Intequus edge server hardware with the performance and security of VergeOS data center infrastructure.

According to IDC,1 by 2025, 75 percent of an estimated 55.7 billion devices will connect to an Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Edge computing places latency-sensitive IoT devices near data processing (compute) resources, providing the speed necessary for optimal performance and user experience. Examples of IoT devices include industrial sensors, medical equipment, traffic management systems, and bandwidth-heavy video applications.

“VergeIO allows us to offer cloud providers an out-of-the-box virtual data center solution packed with management features at a price point other solutions can’t compete with,” said Jake Pomplun, Intequus Chief Revenue Officer.

VergeIO’s software-defined data center platform, VergeOS, converts server hardware into the resources required to create and manage edge virtual data centers. VergeOS deployments are versatile, with data centers ranging in size from computing-research universities to small businesses. The software’s validated ability to deliver performance and security along with simple deployment and management makes VergeOS ideal for edge applications.

“Our partnership with Intequus represents a strong step forward in the edge computing marketplace,” said Matthew Wenzler, VergeIO CEO. “Intequus is recognized by the biggest names in the business for their hardware engineering and lifecycle management. The partnership instantly made sense to both sides.”

Solution architects from VergeIO and Intequus collaborated to engineer a customizable server lineup designed for high performance and rapid deployment. As a trusted integration partner to prominent technology companies, Intequus hardware provides reliability capable of meeting even the most remote edge data center’s needs.

While edge computing is not new, the arrival of 5G networks and artificial intelligence have brought it to the forefront of digital transformation planning. The union of VergeIO and Intequus equips businesses with the power of VergeOS in a hardware-delivery model that supports the demand for edge computing solutions.

About VergeIO

VergeIO is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company located in the Greater Detroit, MI area. Our SDDC operating system, VergeOS, is the first and only single operating system to offer a fully integrated cloud software stack used to build, deploy, and manage virtual data centers. For more information, visit the VergeIO website.

About Intequus

Intequus is the only turnkey edge infrastructure provider with 30 years of custom hardware engineering experience. Our global logistics, continuous program management, and unparalleled lifecycle support simplify scaled hardware initiatives and ensure fast, reliable service for your users. By handling every stage of your edge infrastructure needs, Intequus ensures that you can stay focused on your business and your customers. For more information, visit the Intequus website.

1 IDC. (2020). IoT Growth Demands Rethink of Long-Term Storage Strategies, says IDC. Retrieved from https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prAP46737220

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July 14, 2021 10:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–VergeIO, a leader in Software Defined Data Center solutions, is pleased to announce that AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) industry leader CloudFabrix has selected the VergeOS platform to form the basis of a strategic new partnership.

This partnership will combine VergeIO’s data center virtualization operating system with CloudFabrix’s AI-based Asset Intelligence Operations to provide a complete data center transformation for enterprise and channel service provider organizations. With full data center virtualization and the intelligence around all IT assets including network, compute, storage, and applications, once-siloed infrastructure assets become fully utilized with minimal effort while avoiding unnecessary infrastructure costs.

VergeIO brings data center virtualization and transformation to the forefront of MSP and enterprise organizations while complementing the CloudFabrix value of reducing complexity and creating operational excellence for clients. It is the first and only operating system of its kind that abstracts the
functions of networking, compute (hypervisor), and storage components from commodity bare metal hardware to create virtual data centers.

“Never before has the combination of AI-based Asset Intelligence and a data center virtualization operating system been used to assure a successful data center transformation,” said Bhaskar Krishnamsetty, Chief Product Officer at CloudFabrix. “We’re incredibly excited to work with VergeIO, who’s well known for pioneering the Software Defined Data Center space, to facilitate the smooth
transition to a VergeIO virtualized data center with minimal risk for our clients.”

“We’re thrilled to assist CloudFabrix with taking the guesswork out of the digital transformation process and reducing risk through the VergeOS platform,” said Matt Wenzler, CEO at VergeIO. “This strategic partnership will help organizations realize operational efficiency, cost savings, and a high ROI and I look forward to working with CloudFabrix for many years to come.”

About VergeIO
VergeIO is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company whose platform, VergeOS, is the first and only single operating system to offer a fully integrated cloud software stack used to build, deploy and manage virtual data centers. For more information, visit www.verge.io.

About CloudFabrix
CloudFabrix is the provider of the AIOps and Observability platform that scales and accelerates digital IT lifecycle planning and autonomous IT operations. CloudFabrix empowers IT leaders and operations personnel with AI-powered actionable intelligence to make faster and better decisions. For more information, visit www.cloudfabrix.com

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