Past Webinar

Event Details

This event is aimed at helping you explore the alternatives to VMware and understand the benefits of migrating to an Ultra Converged Infrastructure (UCI). Our expert speakers, Mike Matchett, and George Crump, will discuss how you can make the transition from VMware without disruption while gaining capabilities and lowering costs.

Learn How To:

• Reduce infrastructure costs by 60%+
• Transition gradually, at your pace
• Get more from existing hardware
• Improve scalability and resiliency
• Simplify operations

Event Speakers

Mike Matchett is the principal IT industry analyst and CEO at Small World Big Data, focusing on technology trends and the intersection where IT enterprise meets emerging markets.

George Crump was the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland for almost 14 years before joining VergeIO as CMO.

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Event Agenda:

Three Reasons Why IT Pros are Looking for a VMware Exit

1. Increasing Costs
2. Uncertain Future
3. Stalled Innovation

Possible VMware Alternatives

• Hyper-V
• KVM
• OpenStack
• VergeOS

VMware Alternative Requirements

• Easy migration
• Lower cost
• Simplified operations
• Improved performance and resiliency

Creating a Migration Journey, Not a Migration Project

1. DR as the ideal starting use case
2. Test-Dev
3. New workloads
4. Complete transformation

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.

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.

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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.