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    • Overview
      Learn about VergeOS’ unique unfied architecture that integrates virtualization, storage, networking, AI, backup and DR into a single data center operating system
    • Infrastructure Wide Deduplication
      VergeOS transforms deduplication from a storage-only commodity into a native, infrastructure-wide capability that spans storage, virtualization, and networking, eliminating hidden resource taxes
    • VergeFS
      VergeFS is a distributed, high-performance global file system integrated into VergeOS, unifying storage across nodes, tiers, and workloads while eliminating the need for external SANs
    • VergeFabric
      VergeFabric is VergeOS’s integrated virtual networking layer, delivering high-speed, low-latency communication across nodes while eliminating the complexity of traditional network configurations.
    • Infrastructure Automation
      VergeOS integrates Packer, Terraform, and Ansible to deliver an end-to-end automation pipeline that eliminates infrastructure drift and enables predictable, scalable deployments.
    • VergeIQ
      Unlock secure, on-premises generative AI—natively integrated into VergeOS. With VergeIQ, your enterprise gains private AI capabilities without the complexity, cloud dependency, or token-based pricing.
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    • Virtual Data Centers
      A VergeOS Virtual Data Center (VDC) is a fully isolated, self-contained environment within a single VergeOS instance that includes its own compute, storage, networking, and management controls
    • High Availability
      VergeOS provides a unified, easy-to-manage infrastructure that ensures continuous high availability through automated failover, storage efficiency, clone-like snapshots, and simplified disaster recovery
    • ioClone
      ioClone utilizes global inline deduplication and a blockchain-inspired file system within VergeFS to create instant, independent, space-efficient, and immutable snapshots of individual VMs, volumes, or entire virtual data centers.
    • ioReplicate
      ioReplicate is a unified disaster-recovery solution that enables simple, cost-efficient DR testing and failover via three‑click recovery of entire Virtual Data Centers—including VMs, networking, and storage.
    • ioFortify
      ioFortify creates immutable, restorable VDC checkpoints and provides proactive ransomware detection with instant alerts for rapid recovery and response.
    • ioMigrate
      ioMigrate enables large-scale VMware migrations, automating the rehosting of hundreds of VMs (including networking settings) in seconds with minimal downtime by seamlessly transitioning entire VMware environments onto existing hardware stacks.
    • ioProtect
      ioProtect offers near-real-time replication of VMware VMs—including data, network, and compute configurations—to a remote disaster‑recovery site on existing hardware, slashing DR costs by over 60% while supporting seamless failover and testing in an efficient, turnkey VergeOS Infrastructure.
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      ioOptimize leverages AI and machine learning to seamlessly integrate new and old hardware and automatically migrate workloads from aging or failing servers.
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      ioGuardian is VergeIO’s built-in data protection and recovery capability, providing near-continuous backup and rapid VM recovery during multiple simultaneous drive or server failures.
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    • VMware Alternative
      VergeOS offers seamless migration from VMware, enhancing performance and scalability by consolidating virtualization, storage, and networking into a single, efficient platform.
    • Hyperconverged Alternative
      VergeIO’s page introduces ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI) via VergeOS, which overcomes HCI limitations by supporting external storage, scaling compute and storage independently, using existing hardware, simplifying provisioning, boosting resiliency, and cutting licensing costs.
    • SAN Replacement / Storage Refresh
      VergeIO’s storage by replacing aging SAN/NAS systems within its ultraconverged infrastructure, enhancing security, scalability, and affordability.
    • Infrastructure Modernization
      Legacy infrastructure is fragmented, complex, and costly, built from disconnected components. VergeOS unifies virtualization, storage, networking, data protection, and AI into one platform, simplifying operations and reducing expenses.
    • Secure Research Computing
      VergeIO's Secure Research Computing solution combines speed, isolation, compliance, scalability, and resilience in a cohesive platform. It’s ideal for institutions needing segmented, compliant compute environments that are easy to deploy, manage, and recover.
    • Venues, Remote Offices, and Edge
      VergeOS delivers resiliency and centralized management across Edge, ROBO, and Venue environments. With one platform, IT can keep remote sites independent while managing them all from a single pane of glass.
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      • VMware Migration Testing Is Critical to Completing Your ExitVMware migration testing decides whether your exit finishes. VergeOS keeps the VMware image, takes instant snapshots and isolates each workload in a VDC.
      • How to Use Hard Drive Tiering to Fight Data Center InflationHard drive tiering is back. See how VergeOS lets you pick each drive's tier, move it live, and put the long tail on $56/TB disk instead of $706/TB flash.
      • Leave No VM BehindA complete VMware migration includes clustered SQL Server. VergeOS 26.2 shortens cutover and protects critical workloads inside isolated VDCs.
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IT Initiatives

The IT Initiatives Teams Run on VergeOS

VMware exits, HCI and SAN replacement, private AI, infrastructure modernization, multi-site and edge operations, and secure research computing. Each page shows how VergeOS handles the initiative and which customers have done it.

VergeOS is one operating system for the entire infrastructure. It runs virtualization, storage, networking, data protection and private AI from a single code base on the servers an organization already owns, and it mixes vendors and CPU generations in the same instance. That single platform is why the same software can retire a SAN, replace an HCI stack, run a hundred venues or host secure research enclaves. Every initiative below links to the customer stories behind it.

VMware Exit

A VMware Alternative That Replaces the Whole Stack

A hypervisor swap leaves storage, networking and data protection to buy separately. VergeOS replaces all of it with one operating system, on the hardware you already own.

Proven atSaratogaLancasterNETdepotPfeiffer University
60 to 120Days to exit, on the hardware you own
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Storage

SAN Replacement: Retire the Array, Keep the Servers

Replace SAN and NAS arrays with VergeFS, the storage layer built into VergeOS, on x86 servers you already own or choose, with deduplication and snapshots built in.

Proven atSt. Clair County RESACity of Saint PetersInterBelSaratoga
16:1Deduplication at RESA, up from 3.7:1
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Hyperconverged

A Hyperconverged Alternative Without the HCI Limits

HCI promised one box and one bill. VergeOS delivers one operating system across the servers you already own, scales from two nodes to hundreds, and scales compute and storage independently.

Proven atTopgolfAlinscoFormicaLancasterCCSI
3 nodesPer Topgolf venue, down from six on VxRail
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Edge and Multi-Site

VergeOS for Venues, Remote Offices and Edge

One platform from the core data center to every venue, branch and edge site, with small clusters at each location and one place to manage all of them.

Proven atTopgolfSkiBig3SaratogaInterBel
3 weeksTo upgrade the entire Topgolf fleet
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Private AI

Private AI with VergeIQ on GPUs You Own

VergeOS orchestrates GPUs with pass-through, vGPU and MIG, and VergeIQ hosts the LLMs you choose on hardware you own, so data stays private and costs stay predictable.

Built onVergeIQYour GPUsYour LLMs
3Ways to use private LLMs: automation, IT productivity, AI for everyone
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Modernization

Infrastructure Modernization: One Platform for Every Initiative

Build an architecture that absorbs new initiatives without new infrastructure. Leave VMware, reuse hardware, fight data center inflation and prepare for AI on one platform.

Proven atNETdepotInterBelCenterGridSaratoga
80%+Estimated infrastructure savings at NETdepot
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Research and Higher Ed

Secure Research Computing with VergeOS

Secure enclaves for HIPAA, CUI and FISMA data in minutes, with a tenant per grant and compliance and standardization that keep pace with researchers.

Proven atUniversity of MichiganPfeiffer University
2,600Research groups on U-M’s VergeOS research cloud
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