Modern Infrastructure for K–12 and Municipalities
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VergeOS
Public Sector IT Needs a New Approach
K–12 school districts and municipalities are being asked to do more with less. Aging infrastructure, shrinking budgets, reduced staffing, and growing demands—from cybersecurity to AI readiness—are stretching IT teams to the limit. Traditional architectures built on VMware, SANs, and third-party backup systems are too costly, too complex, and no longer sustainable.
VergeOS delivers a better way forward: By converging virtualization, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery into a single data center operating system, VergeOS enables public sector organizations to reduce costs, extend hardware life, and simplify operations—all without sacrificing performance or resilience.
Read Our Public Sector and K-12 Case Studies
Maximize the Value of Existing Infrastructure
For many public sector IT teams, budget cycles are fixed while infrastructure needs continue to grow. Being forced into hardware refreshes—mainly due to licensing changes or shifting vendor requirements—places unnecessary strain on already tight capital budgets. Most school districts and municipalities can't afford to rip and replace functioning hardware every 3–5 years.
Dive Deep with our K-12 and Public Sector White Paper.
VergeOS Breathes New Life Into Existing Servers: VergeOS decouples infrastructure software from hardware refresh cycles. It installs directly on existing x86 servers. VergeOS' built-in high availability ensures continuous operation, even on aging hardware, while its unified operating system improves performance.
Too Much Infrastructure, Too Few People
K-12 and Municipality IT teams manage complex environments with minimal staff. This small team is responsible for maintaining uptime, security, and services across all departments. Fragmented systems spanning hypervisors, SANs, and backup tools make operations harder. Simplifying infrastructure is critical for sustainability, resiliency, and scaling with small teams.
VergeOS Simplifies Infrastructure Operations: VergeOS helps small IT teams by collapsing the entire infrastructure stack—virtualization, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery—into a single, software-defined platform. With a single interface and a unified set of tools, administrators can manage everything without needing to juggle multiple consoles or rely on specialized roles.
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Rethinking Backup's Role in the Infrastructure
Many public sector organizations discover that their backup infrastructure is just as costly and complex as their hypervisor layer. With rising licensing fees, siloed storage, and slow recovery processes, traditional backup platforms can no longer justify their footprint or cost. A VMware transition presents the perfect opportunity to ask whether backup software and dedicated hardware are still necessary.
VergeOS Can Reduce Backup Dependency: VergeOS eliminates the need for separate backup software and hardware by integrating data protection directly into the platform. Snapshots with ioClone are fast, frequent, and space-efficient, while ioGuardian delivers missing data in real-time without manual restores. This integrated approach improves recovery times, reduces complexity, and eliminates the costs associated with backup licensing and infrastructure.
Learn more about reducing backup dependency. Read our Backup Independence article.
Reduce Infrastructure Costs
Unlike commercial organizations, schools and municipalities often depend on fixed annual funding or voter-approved bonds—making cost predictability essential. Rising licensing fees, forced hardware refreshes, and the need for separate systems for virtualization, storage, and backup have inflated infrastructure costs beyond what many public agencies can sustain. Reducing infrastructure costs isn't just a goal—it's a requirement.
VergeOS Reduces Infrastructure Costs: VergeOS reduces infrastructure costs by consolidating virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster recovery into a single platform that runs on standard x86 servers and commodity SSDs—no proprietary hardware required. Its flat, per-server license includes all features, with no extra fees for snapshots, replication, or DR. By eliminating the need for separate backup software and hardware, VergeOS helps public sector IT teams lower both capital and operational expenses while simplifying their environment.
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