Enterprise or MSP tenants of a VergeIO datacenter run VMs in software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) combining compute, storage, and networking. VergeIO calls this “ultraconverged” infrastructure. The VergeOS controlling software presents these nodes to tenants and protects the VMs, meaning systems, applications, and files. Immutable clones are made, globally deduplicated and stored, then used as the basis for recovery in the event of ransomware attacks. — Chris Mellor, Editor
TechTalk: Deep Dive on Virtual Infrastructure File Systems
Join us for a technical deep dive on virtual storage file system design with our panel of experts:
- Greg Campbell, VergeIO’s Founder, and CTO
- Aaron Reid, VergeIO’s SE Director
- George Crump, VergeIO CMO
The panel will discuss the various design choices that storage software developers make and how those choices impact the capabilities of the storage infrastructure and the entire virtual environment.
We will also provide a live demonstration of the VergeOS storage capabilities, including showing our IOclone functionality and answer your questions in the chat throughout the event.
Key Takeaways
- The differences between stand-alone All-Flash Arrays, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, and Ultraconverged Infrastructure in their support of virtual infrastructure.
- The differences between deduplication technologies and how those differences impact performance and scalability
- The differences between snapshots and clone technologies and which provides the most benefit with the most negligible impact for the modern storage infrastructure.
About our Speakers
Greg Campbell is the founder and CTO of VergeIO. He is the original architect of VergeOS and sets its strategic vision. Before founding VergeIO, he was the Founder and CTO of Codespear, later acquired by Federal Signal Corporation, where he was Chief Architect and Director of Advanced Technology.
Aaron Reid is VergeIO’s SE Director for the US and APAC. Before joining VergeIO, he was a Senior Systems Engineer for Morpheus Data, a multi-cloud management platform. He has over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions to support virtual infrastructures.
George Crump is VergeIO’s, Chief Marketing Officer. Before joining VergeIO, he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE after spending 14 years as the founder and lead analyst of Storage Switzerland, a storage industry analyst firm.
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Virtual CxO RoundTable — Infrastructures: Edge Computing and Private Cloud
IT infrastructure has become more complex. Organizations must develop a strategy for the Edge and Private Cloud. Join us for our on-demand virtual CxO roundtable with VergeIO CTO Greg Campbell, CEO Yan Ness, and CMO George Crump as they take your Edge and Private Cloud questions live.
Also, learn about new strategies for Edge Computing and Private Cloud that provide a viable and less expensive alternative to the Public Cloud.
After the roundtable, we will demonstrate the VergeOS Atria, the latest release of VergeIO’s operating system that delivers an Edge Computing infrastructure that:
- Scales Small: Create a powerful data center that fits into a shoebox
- Provides a mesh-like management network for easy remote monitoring and management
- Delivers extreme high availability in both hardware redundancy and management resiliency
We will also discuss our new Recipe Marketplace that enables a catalog-like deployment of virtual machines and entire workloads. Now you can create a private cloud experience that rivals public clouds for a fraction of the cost.
Learn how to turn your data center into a private cloud that:
- Provides point-and-click deployment of virtual machines or entire workloads
- Enforces accurate data protection and disaster recovery policies
- Is customizable to offer a deployment catalog to customers and users.
Beyond HCI — The Next Step in Data Center Infrastructure Evolution
It has been two decades since Storage Area Networking (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) emerged as dominant parts of the IT infrastructure. In the last decade, we’ve seen Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and Public Cloud arrive as alternatives. Each of these infrastructure iterations has failed in its primary mission: to reduce IT costs and complexity.
It is time to complete the mission! Organizations need an infrastructure that can reduce IT costs and complexity!
Join VergeIO for our on-demand webinar “Beyond HCI — The Next Step in Data Center Infrastructure Evolution.” During the webinar, we introduce the next step in infrastructure, ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI). During the webinar, we will explain what UCI is, how it works, and how it enables YOUR data center to deliver a more cost-effective and less complicated data center operating environment than SAN, NAS, HCI, or the Public Cloud.
Easily migrate Hyper-V VMs to VergeIO
See how easy it is to migrate virtual machines from Hyper-V to a VergeIO virtual data center.
StorageNewsLetter Publishes VergeIO’s CEO, Yan Ness Reflections on 2022
Learn Why We Think:
- Acquisitions cause angst
- Staffing gaps were exacerbated
- The cloud is expensive at scale
Storage Newsletter Publishes Verge CEO’s 2023 Predictions
VergeIO (Yan Ness, CEO)
Mass digitization still accelerating (and will continue to do so)
- Data creation, data consumption, staff and Opex costs, and cost of capital will create significant pressure on CIOs and, ultimately the bottom lines of everyone. It’s the data’s fault.
- No one has less data or computing needs than last year, never has or ever will. When does it plateau? Has anyone heard of Metaverse? The need for more compute, and more data will accelerate.
- Cost-of-capital constraints may limit investment, but the rapid consumption and distribution of data will not. The rate of data created is no longer dependent on economic conditions.
Computing will be more and more distributed
- Latency will require we spread the ability to run workloads as we spread peanut butter on a piece of bread – easily and evenly to the Edge, Core Data Center and cloud.
- Your phone will do more of the work than the cloud. It’ll have to because the sum of 1 billion phones will out-compute all the data centers.
Capital constraints will continue, and CIOs will seek more cost controls
- Capex is expensive as ever, and so are staff. Organizations need something that runs on cheaper hardware and requires less staff. This will be especially true as workloads need to run further and further away from a data center.
Complexity will come to a head for public cloud (big one)
- We will need new, innovative ways to better leverage software to deliver cloud-like capabilities, everywhere, in a much simpler way. The new FinOps career path is evidence that the cloud has become too complex. It’s ironic that FinOps salaries, overhead, and tools will need to be added to the cost structure of the public cloud for an accurate TCO analysis.
- Microsoft Windows commoditized computing and put it on the laps and in the hands of everyone. Before that, only hobbyists and experts used computers. Ken Olsen, the former CEO of Digital (DEC), famously said, “why would anyone need a computer in a home?” The cost of computing entered a paradigm shift with Windows and the PC. It’s time for the same disruption to “cloud computing”.
Storage Newsletter: George Crump new CMO at VergeIO
Storage Newsletter reports on industry veteran George Crump joining VergeIO as Chief Marketing Officer
Blocks and Files Reports on George Crump Joining as CMO
Chris Mellor reports on George Crump joining VergeIO as Chief Marketing Officer