Can You Afford Your Next Storage Refresh?
The first storage refresh in thirty years that prices higher than the original purchase.
The Rule Just Broke
This is contract pricing, not spot noise. The quotes you receive this quarter already carry it.
Why Waiting Fails
Waiting is a bet that the market turns before the array does, and the wafer data says it does not.
The gap is the problem
Relief arrives after your hardware support does. The plan that waits is a plan that runs production on an unsupported array through the most expensive flash market in thirty years.
You Know Your Data. Auto-Tiering Does Not.
Tiering is how you stop paying flash prices for data that no longer earns them. The problem was never tiering. The problem was who controlled it.
- Auto-tiering guesses. It predicts what turns hot and cold, it almost always predicts wrong, and you have no control over the outcome.
- You already know. Tax season ends on a date, not on an algorithm’s guess. You know when an application runs hot and when its data goes cold.
- Movement in seconds. When VergeOS moves a running workload between tiers in seconds, prediction stops mattering. You make the call, and the data follows.
Watch it happen live
In the demo, David moves a running workload from flash to a hard drive tier while you watch, and the performance numbers tell the story.
Four Tiers Become One OS
Network, virtualization, storage, and data protection in a single code base, on hardware you already own.
- One install, one license, and one update cover the whole stack. No seams to certify, and the VMware exit comes in the same move.
- A running node evacuates and leaves the cluster with its workloads live, so the retirement date is yours.
- Generations of commodity x86 mix in one system, and storage scales without buying cores.
- Global inline deduplication shrinks the purchased footprint. Fewer new flash devices means less exposure to the price of flash.
- VergeOS is licensed by the server, not the terabyte. Storage adds nothing to the license, so buy servers with plenty of drive bays and fill them with all the capacity you can afford.
The Refresh Math
A real refresh at today’s list prices, next to the same workload on converged infrastructure. Set the discount you actually get, then adjust the rest live.
Flash and HDD prices are list, and the discount slider applies to both columns. The comparison term applies to both sides: array software and support accrues per year of the term, and the VergeOS subscription runs per server per year over the same term. The tiering slider moves the cold share of the deduplicated footprint to HDD, and the array column stays all-flash. Check the array-deduplication box to grant the array the same dedupe ratio, and the markup, license, support, and all-flash footprint still carry the difference. Storage capacity adds nothing to the VergeOS line. Protection overhead applies to both sides and is left out. Enter a real VergeOS quote in the platform-cost field to keep the math honest on screen.