Press Release

Ann Arbor, Mich, March 28th, 2023 — VergeIO, the Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) company, today announced that it is providing a robust disaster recovery solution, IOprotect, for VMware. The solution promises to reduce customer costs by more than 60% and, in most cases, requires no additional hardware while improving recoverability and resiliency.

IOprotect is part of VergeIO’s Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) solution VergeOS and enables customers to take a safe first step of a VMware Exit Strategy. Customers can load IOprotect on the existing hardware at their disaster recovery location and replicate, in near real-time, their VMware virtual machines to it. IOprotect enables customers to cut costs almost immediately while increasing the number of workloads protected thanks to the efficiency of VergeOS.

“Disaster Recovery is an excellent first step in a VMware Exit strategy. It enables customers to fully vet the potential alternative by having it run a function that is critical and vital to the enterprise,” said Yan Ness, VergeIO CEO, “Later, once customers experience the stability and robust capabilities of VergeOS, they seamlessly upgrade to the full version of VergeOS. Then they are ready to transition their production environment as their VMware licensing agreements expire, face a VMware audit, or want to avoid another round of disruptive upgrades.”

The IOprotect solution enables customers to maintain continuously updated copies of their VMware virtual machines on VergeOS but does not replace backup solutions. Instead, it is a radically affordable DR alternative to software from VMware, Zerto, array-based replication Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) bundles. It is also significantly easier to set up, operate and maintain.

IOprotect runs on the customer’s hardware at a site they deem appropriate for disaster recovery, eliminating the shock of unexpectedly high monthly bills from public cloud providers. With IOprotect, customers can restart protected workloads within minutes of a site outage. If organizations don’t have a suitable DR site, they can connect with one of VergeIO’s IOpartners and easily address their disaster recovery needs with a few mouse clicks.

Due to the solution’s cost-effectiveness and modest hardware requirements, many customers leverage existing hardware to create an on-premises DR instance for disasters that are not site-wide. This “on-site” DR environment protects them from local failures like storage system failure, double drive failures, and ransomware corruption. The VergeOS environment maintains immutable copies of the customer’s VMware virtual machines, which increases their resiliency to a ransomware attack.

Disasters and ransomware attacks are something to prepare for but not something customers must deal with daily. It doesn’t make sense to pay full price for a solution that sits waiting for use. IOprotect low price enables customers to reduce DR costs and begin investigating a possible VMware Exit strategy. IOprotect is licensed per target node, not capacity. It can start with as few as two nodes and support unlimited virtual machine sources. Customers can run workloads for 36 hours to validate disaster recovery readiness.

Customers can easily upgrade the solution for other use cases like workload spike mitigation, testing, development, reporting, and eventually complete VMware migration.

To learn more, join VergeIO on Wednesday, April 12th at 12:30 pm ET, for “ VMware Disaster and Ransomware Disaster Recovery, The Three New Best Practices,” for an interactive whiteboard session describing the three new best practices for rapidly recovering from these worse case scenarios.

About VergeIO

VergeIO is the Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) company. Unlike hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), it rotates the traditional IT stack (compute, storage, and networking) into an integrated data center operating system, VergeOS. Its efficiency enables greater workload density on the same hardware with high levels of data resiliency. The result is dramatically lower costs and greatly simplified IT.

Unleashes the Edge and Makes Private Clouds a Reality

Ann Arbor, Mich, February 7, 2023 — VergeIO, the Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) company, today announced the immediate availability of its latest software release of VergeOS, the Data Center Operating System. The new release enables organizations to rapidly extend their infrastructures to the Edge with a new mesh-based management capability. It also provides a new Recipe Marketplace to simplify large data center deployments delivering on the full promise of the private cloud.

The new release, Atria, is named after one of the brightest stars in the sky; it aligns with the VergeIO’s north star, “simplify IT.” Unlike traditional hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI), UCI integrates virtualization, storage, and networking into a single data center operating system, VergeOS. With UCI, storage, and networking are equal citizens to the hypervisor, not virtual machines (VM) crippled by a virtualization tax. The integration enables clusters of dissimilar hardware to be globally pooled and provisioned via Virtual Data Centers (VDC) for complete workload consolidation while maintaining workload integrity.

“Over the past few years, we have seen a strong uptick in on-premises data center modernization efforts in order to simplify operations and become more cloud-like. The innovation from VergeIO aligns directly with those key objectives of delivering incredibly simple scalability of resources.”

Scott Sinclair, Practice Director at the Enterprise Strategy Group

Unleashing the Edge

UCI’s cohesive integration of virtualization, storage, and networking enables IT to use the same data center operating system at the Edge and in the core data center. Because of its efficient and optimal utilization of available hardware, VergeOS can deliver excellent Edge performance from two micro-servers, like Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) hardware. In the space of a shoebox, customers can deploy a complete data center. In the core data center, customers can scale to hundreds of nodes and support various workloads from a single piece of software.

In the Atria release, VergeOS adds a mesh-like management capability, Site Manager, which provides the ability to report each site’s status while enabling IT to operate each site from a single interface remotely. For example, IT administrators can easily, securely, and safely manage software updates at hundreds of Edge and data centers.

Site Manager will parse through all the telemetry information that each site reports and highlight specific information that IT needs to be immediately aware of so it can, through the same interface, correct any issue that may arise. With Site Manager’s mesh design, there is no single point of management failure.

With the Atria release, VergeIO is creating a new edition of its software, “Edge Edition,” which supports a highly-available pair of nodes, 64GB per RAM per node, and unlimited storage.

Transforms Core Data Centers into Private Clouds

For IT professionals looking to simplify the provisioning and management of data center resources, describing core data centers as private clouds is more marketing-speak than reality. The Atria release of VergeOS makes the private cloud a reality in the core data center with the addition of VergeIO’s Recipe Marketplace. With a few clicks, the marketplace enables IT to deploy complete workloads, including all the VMs for that workload, the operating system and application software for those VMs, as well as the storage and network configurations.

In the initial release, the Recipe Marketplace will have over a dozen built-in recipes; customers can clone them or create their own and, in the future, contribute them to a community-driven marketplace. With VergeOS’ ability to consolidate different servers, storage, and networking into a cohesive operating environment, the Recipe Marketplace completes the private cloud vision.

External Backup Support

While VergeOS includes both built-in backup and multi-data center replication, the Atria release enables external backup software applications like Veeam, Commvault, and others to back up the VergeIO environment. External backup enables IT to integrate the VergeOS environment into their existing backup and disaster recovery procedures.

Performance Optimizations

There are also 140 different enhancements in the Atria release. VergeOS significantly improves performance load distribution so that all the elements within the data center operating system are used to maximum efficiency. The VergeIO development team’s goal is to ensure that every dollar the organization invests in hardware is fully utilized, and the Atria release continues that commitment.

“With this release, which includes 140 enhancements, we are leveraging the power of our ultraconverged architecture to deliver scalability, functionality, and agility from the Edge to Enterprise to Cloud. Atria is a great step in our quest to reduce complexity and cost in IT infrastructure.”

Greg Campbell, Verge founder and CTO

Please go to the Verge OS release page for more details.

---

Media Contact:
Judy Smith, JPR Communications
818-522-9673
[email protected]

Brings over 30 years IT industry experience to rapidly growing technology innovator 

Ann Arbor, Mich, January 10, 2023 — VergeIO, the Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) company, today announced that veteran industry analyst George Crump is joining the team as the company’s new Chief Marketing Officer, evangelizing VergeOS software as a better alternative to legacy hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the public cloud. 

For 14 years, Crump was the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland, a premier independent IT research firm covering the storage, backup virtualization, and cloud markets. As a writer, speaker, and strategic thinker, he focuses on giving IT practical insight into the solutions to data center problems. He has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, holding executive engineering, sales, and marketing positions. Before joining VergeIO, he was Chief Marketing Officer and then Chief Product Strategist at StorONE, an enterprise storage software provider. 

Crump’s appointment follows an expansion of VergeIO’s sales and technology advancements that have generated strong results.

“There is no one in our industry with George’s reputation and credibility when it comes to identifying the right products and technologies for organizations looking to improve IT operations and reduce total cost of ownership,” said Yan Ness, VergeIO CEO. “The IT community has long valued George’s experience, insight, and clarity. As our CMO, he can continue to help IT professionals address their most critical issues, like controlling cost, scaling to meet performance and capacity demands, and simplifying IT.”

“VergeIO and its VergeOS software embody what I’ve been advocating for years: organizations must find ways to reduce the cost and complexity of virtualization, storage, and networking infrastructures,” said Crump. “The root cause of the ever-increasing data center cost and complexity is today’s solutions are too niche and don’t address the scale problem. I believe VergeIO is the company that has broken through these challenges.”

George and Yan will host a live webinar, “How to Eliminate the Data Center Scale Problem,” this Thursday at 11:45 AM ET / 8:45 AM PT to explain how the VergeOS architecture eliminates the scale problem and leads to a far simpler and more cost-effective IT infrastructure. 

About VergeIO

The VergeOS software goes beyond HCI and converges the entire data center (virtualization, networking, and storage) into a cohesive data center operating system. The result is an ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI), that unifies the underlying hardware into a highly scalable global resource pool. 

Its simplicity of operation enables IT generalists to create virtual data centers (VDC) and assign specific resources from the global resource pool to deliver complete workload consolidation without risking performance integrity. VergeOS dramatically reduces IT spend and operational complexity compared to traditional three-tier architectures, HCI, or public cloud. VergeOS provides global inline deduplication, virtualized workloads with bare-metal performance, and comprehensive data protection.