Live Webinar · August 13, 2026
Own Your Stack Again
A four-property casino operator replaced VMware, Cisco UCS, and mirrored Pure Storage arrays with VergeOS on servers it picked itself. This is what that decision cost, what it returned, and what we are about to run live.
The customer, the hardware partner, and the engineers who run it.
One person on this panel lived the migration. One supplied the servers. Two built the platform and run the demonstration you are about to watch.
Scott Bartgis
Corporate Director of IT
Saratoga Casino Holdings
Ben Marquis
Director of Storage & Software Solutions
CXTEC
Aaron Richman
Field Evangelist
VergeIO
Dave Vincent
Technical Solutions Strategist
VergeIO
Saratoga Casino Holdings
Four properties, one team
Saratoga Casino Holdings runs four gaming and hospitality properties, anchored in Saratoga Springs, New York. One corporate IT team supports all of them.
Player tracking sets the bar for uptime. A guest who inserts a card and feeds a machine $20 expects credit for every dollar played, which leaves very little room in the maintenance window.
The stack he inherited
A business partner standardized every property on Cisco UCS blades, mirrored Pure Storage arrays, and VMware. That partner then wound down and handed the operating cost back to Saratoga.
Scott Bartgis, Corporate Director of IT, took over an environment he had no part in selecting. Servers aged. The post-Broadcom renewal asked him to surrender perpetual licenses he already owned and pay again. Array maintenance alone ran about $50,000 a year.
Every decision that follows traces back to one question: who gets to pick the hardware.
CXTEC and equal2new®
Scott had trusted CXTEC for network switches since 2016. When he needed servers he chose himself, he went back to the same program. CXTEC asked for two days to architect a solution on VergeOS, and delivered four nodes within a couple of weeks.
Since 1995
Rebuilt, then proven
Enterprise hardware refurbished in ISO 9001 certified facilities. Every system is engineer built and burned in before it ships.
Warranty
Covered for life
A fully configured server ships with a lifetime warranty on the chassis and every component, memory included. SSDs come with a one-year term, set by finite write life.
Support and trade-in
A third of OEM cost
RapidCare delivers 8×5 next-business-day or 24×7 four-hour parts replacement. CXTEC also buys back retired servers, VxRail nodes, and arrays.
The gear you remove returns value toward the gear you add, which is how a hardware refresh starts paying for the software decision that triggered it.
Half the price, with more of everything.
Scott priced the alternatives before he signed anything. Small-footprint hyperconverged platforms fell short on capacity for a site holding 30 to 40 terabytes. Nutanix priced close enough to VMware that he grouped the two together. The VergeOS design came in at almost half the price of Scale Computing and well under Nutanix, with more compute, more RAM, and more storage capacity.
“If you blindfolded me, I wouldn’t be able to tell.”
Scott Bartgis, Corporate Director of IT, Saratoga Casino Holdings, on replacing an all-flash arrayNow watch the same journey, live.
Everything to this point is one customer’s account. The rest of this session runs that journey on screen: presenter, hardware, and the VergeOS interface together, so a physical action and its effect appear at the same moment.
Migrate
Move a VMware workload live
Minimal downtime, one workload at a time, on your own schedule rather than a single all-at-once cutover.
Tier
Tier the storage behind it
Performance and capacity media combined, with one platform managing both.
Refresh
Remove a server, keep serving
Workloads move off, the server enters maintenance and leaves the environment, and the applications stay online throughout.
“It is no different, other than my checkbook has a little more money in it.”