Salugna Saha of Gestalt IT explains how VergeIO simplifies IT stack reducing staffing, compliance, security and complexity for virtualized environments. Read Article.
The $1 Trillion Question
Public Cloud…
Costs $1 Trillion in Market Cap
Sarah Wang and Martin Casado of Andreeson-Horowitz assert that cloud spend is reducing enterprise values of tech companies by a trillion dollar. Some excerpts…
There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing.
The cloud also helps cultivate innovation as company resources are freed up to focus on new products and growth.
“Repatriation results in one-third to one-half the cost of running equivalent workloads in the cloud”
Across all our conversations with diverse practitioners, the pattern has been remarkably consistent: If you’re operating at scale, the cost of cloud can at least double your infrastructure bill.
It’s becoming evident that while cloud clearly delivers on its promise early on in a company’s journey, the pressure it puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits, as a company scales and growth slows.
The point of this post isn’t to argue for repatriation, though; that’s an incredibly complex decision with broad implications that vary company by company.
The cloud paradox…You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it.
Suggestions: rely heaving on KPIs; implement proper incentives; relentless and continuous optimization; think through repatriation and do so incrementally if at all.
…Provides Incredible ROI
Venturebeat published an opinion piece disputing the claim by Wang and Casado. Instead Venturebeat claims cloud spend has an ROI to it. Some excerpts…
In our view, a generalized debate over whether on-prem environments are cheaper to operate than cloud is incredibly simplistic.
…the major benefits of the cloud are often related to revenue, not cost.
Two major benefits: acceleration of time-to-market cycles. The possibility of rapid expansions in infrastructure (within or even across geographies) to capture revenue blooms.
The fact that these deployments were poorly architected or were better-suited to run on-prem hardly means that all cloud workloads are
If they can be cloned 1:1 in a datacenter, then companies should always consider re-architecting the workload to take advantage of cloud-native technologies.
If you’re running large workloads in the public cloud, it’s not time to panic. It’s highly unlikely you are wasting half or two-thirds of your infrastructure costs by running in the cloud without any incremental benefits to show for it.
Our position is that the distribution of workloads will be much more nuanced than either article assumes. It will take a variety of infrastructure strategies to host the variety of workloads needed today and in the future. Data and processing demand at the edge is growing exponentially. How does “the cloud” help with that?
Sometimes you need a hotel room, sometimes you need to lease an apartment and sometimes you need to buy a house.
There are many requirements to consider when picking a new home for our workload. Security, performance, tech stack, flexibility, predictability, scalability and cost all matter.
Some workloads have security or performance requirements that require they be in a specific geographic location or even in a specific building physically connected to another device. Some have little to no more than basic security or compliance requirements.
There are also some workloads that that inherently should or can not run “in the cloud.” Workloads that are written from the bottom up on a providers services inherently has to stay in the cloud. But some workloads, like those needed at the edge, inherently cannot rely on “cloud” like elasticity off in a different geography. Content delivery networks are an example of workloads that can’t just be moved to the cloud – they sort of are like the cloud themselves.
For this article, let’s assume that security and performance requirements can be met in either the public cloud or your own environment. For traditional server based workloads, of which there are many, we often refer to this framework.
You may ask how can you have a low variable workload that is unpredictable? Most startup SaaS companies have little variability overtime but also very little predictability as to when they will begin to achieve exponential growth. This is the scenario that Andreesen refers to…at some point the exponential growth has turned into a huge amount of the workload becoming low variability and highly predictable…time to buy a house. Venturebeat would say – without the public’s cloud elastic capex-free model, the startup SaaS would never have been able to innovate and launch.
Is that a wasted spend, or a huge ROI or both?
VergeIO and Dallas Digital Offer Alternative Enterprise Virtualization Solutions
VergeIO and Dallas Digital Offer Alternative Enterprise Virtualization Solutions
ANN ARBOR, Mich., and DALLAS, Texas, September 13, 2022 — VergeIO, the company with a simpler way to virtualize data centers, and Dallas DigitalServices, an IT solutions provider for enterprises and government agencies, today announced an agreement to offer VergeIO’s virtual cloud software stack as a simple, cost-effective alternative to build, deploy and manage virtual data centers.
With Verge-OS software, Dallas Digital enables virtualized data centers for its clients with greater savings and efficiencies. Verge-OS abstracts compute, network, and storage from commodity servers and creates pools of raw resources that are simple to run and manage, creating feature-rich infrastructures for environments and workloads like clustered HPC, ultra-converged and hyper-converged data centers, DevOps and Test/Dev, compliant medical and healthcare, remote and edge compute including VDI, and multi-tenant private clouds.
“Legacy virtualization platforms require many differentSKUs, with complex pricing schemes and significant API integration to build outa virtualized data center, especially at scale,” said Howie Evans VicePresident Dallas Digital. “We are pleased to be able to offer Verge-OS as a way to deliver a virtual data center experience but in a secure, hardware-efficient system that can scale compute, memory, and storage resources as needed.”
“Recent M&A activity is causing enterprises to look for alternatives to legacy systems, and partnerships with solution providers like DallasDigital are an ideal way to bring these customers a modernized virtualization platform for the way organizations work today,” said Yan Ness, CEO at VergeIO.“Verge-OS is not only simpler to configure and run, it’s simpler to buy, and simpler for Dallas Digital to support.”
Verge-OS is an ultra-thin software—less than 300,000 lines of code—that is easy to install and scale on low-cost commodity hardware and self-manages based on AI/ML. A single license replaces separate hypervisor, networking, storage, data protection, and management tools to simplify operations and downsize complex technology stacks.
Secure virtual data centers based on Verge-OS include all enterprise data services like global deduplication, disaster recovery, continuous data protection, snapshots, long-distance synch, and auto-failover. They are ideal for creating honeypots, sandboxes, cyber ranges, air-gapped computing, and secure compliance enclaves to meet regulations such as HIPAA, CUI, SOX,NIST, and PCI. Nested multi-tenancy gives service providers, departmental enterprises, and campuses the ability to assign resources and services to groups and sub-groups.
About Dallas Digital Services
Founded in 1996, Dallas Digital Services began as an on-site service provider for enterprise companies and has developed into a highly recognized solution provider for mission critical and high availability solutions. It is a relationship-driven IT solutions provider, offering best-of-breed technology and services for enterprise organizations as well as public-sector entities. It offers strategic services, technical expertise, and sales support to enable clients to maximize the value of their data center investments. Based on each customer’s unique objectives and IT environment,Dallas Digital can assess, architect, implement, and manage solutions that improve current technology performance. For more information, please visit https://www.ddserv.com.
About VergeIO
VergeIO provides a simpler way to virtualize data centers and end IT infrastructure complexity. The company’s Verge OS software is the first and only fully integrated virtual cloud software stack to build, deploy and manage virtual data centers. Verge-OS delivers significant capital savings, increased operational efficiencies, reduced risk, and rapid scalability. For more information, visit www.verge.io or simply call 855-855-8300.
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VergeIO Unveils Shared, Virtualized GPU Computing to Cut Complexity and Cost
Virtualization of GPU resources simply and affordably supports AI/ML, remote desktop and other performance-intensive workloads
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—August 16, 2022 — VergeIO, the company with a simpler way to virtualize data centers, has added significant new features to its Verge-OS software to give users the performance of GPUs as virtualized, shared resources. This creates a cost-effective, simple and flexible way to perform GPU-based machine learning, remote desktop and other compute-intensive workloads within an agile, scalable, secure Verge-OS virtual data center.
Verge-OS abstracts compute, network, and storage from commodity servers and creates pools of raw resources that are simple to run and manage, creating feature-rich infrastructures for environments and workloads like clusteredHPC in universities, ultra-converged and hyperconverged enterprises, DevOps andTest/Dev, compliant medical and healthcare, remote and edge compute includingVDI, and xSPs offering hosted services including private clouds.
Current methods for deploying GPUs systemwide are complex and expensive, especially for remote users. Rather than supplying GPUs throughout the organization, VergeIO allows users and applications with access to a virtual data center to share the computing resources of a singleGPU-equipped server. Users/administrators can ‘pass through’ an installed GPU to a virtual data center by simply creating a virtual machine with access to that GPU and its resources.
Alternatively, VergeIO can manage the virtualization of theGPU and serve up vGPUs to virtual data centers. This allows organizations to easily manage vGPUs on the same platform as all other shared resources.
According to Darren Pulsipher, Chief Solution Architect of PublicSector at Intel, “The market is looking for simplicity, and Verge-OS is like an‘Easy Button’ for creating a virtual cloud that is so much faster and easier to set up than a private cloud. With Verge-OS, my customers can migrate and manage their data centers anywhere and upgrade their hardware with zero downtime.”
“The ability to deploy GPU in a virtualized, converged environment, and access that performance as needed, even remotely, radically reduces the investment in hardware while simplifying management,” said VergeIO CEO Yan Ness. “Our users are increasingly needing GPU performance, from scientific research to machine learning, so vGPU and GPU Passthrough are simple ways to share and pool GPU resources as they do with the rest of their processing capabilities.”
Verge-OS is an ultra-thin software—less than 300,000 lines of code—that is easy to install and scale on low-cost commodity hardware and self-manages based on AI/ML. A single license replaces separate hypervisor, networking, storage, data protection, and management tools to simplify operations and downsize complex technology stacks.
Secure virtual data centers based on Verge-OS include all enterprise data services like global deduplication, disaster recovery, continuous data protection, snapshots, long-distance synch, and auto-failover. They are ideal for creating honeypots, sandboxes, cyber ranges, air-gapped computing, and secure compliance enclaves to meet regulations such as HIPAA, CUI, SOX, NIST, and PCI. Nested multi-tenancy gives service providers, departmental enterprises, and campuses the ability to assign resources and services to groups and sub-groups.
Currently VergeIO supports NVIDIATesla and Ampere cards; additional licenses must be purchased for vGPU capability.
For a complete list of enhancements please visit https://wiki.verge.io/public/release-notes
About VergeIO
VergeIO provides a simpler way to virtualize data centers and end IT infrastructure complexity. The company’s Verge OS software is the first and only fully integrated virtual cloud software stack to build, deploy and manage virtual data centers. Verge-OS delivers significant capital savings, increased operational efficiencies, reduced risk, and rapid scalability. For more information, visit www.verge.io or simply call 855-855-8300.
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Q2 2022 is VergeIO’s most productive quarter ever
We just finished our best quarter in VergeIO‘s history.
Our VP of Sales Chris Lehman led the team to this fantastic outcome.
Our KPI’s show that we have a repeatable, and scalable sales process. Our final few deals of the quarter had record low sales cycles and lead costs.We also identified a high-ROI and highly scalable marketing process. So, we’re dramatically increasing our marketing spend starting now. Analysts, new marketing tech stack, PR firm and more Google Adwords spend are in the works. And of course we love our experience with The Pipeline Group. Thanks Ken Jisser.
Our message resonates. Everyone is looking to simplify IT. There’s nothing simpler than using VergeIO software product on commodity hardware instead of the 10 vendors and 3 experts needed with other legacy providers.
We’re also speaking to a lot of people highly motivated to find an alternative to VMware given their acquisition by Broadcom Inc. While I feel for the VMware employee’s who will lose their jobs I also feel for their customers who are about to lose support and pay more for the privilege.
Thanks to our new customers, our existing customers and all our employees for such a successful quarterly.
We’re just getting started.
VergeIO Software Helps ZebraHost Quickly Deploy Private Clouds for Customers
June 04, 2019 10:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VergeIO, Inc., a software company specializing in virtualization of the data center, announced today that ZebraHost, a leading hosting and technology consulting company, leverages VergeIO software to offer its customers private cloud environments that are secure, resilient, and scalable. Since installing VergeIO software in their data center, ZebraHost has reduced their number of support requests and increased customer satisfaction.
“The security, resilience and scalability of our VergeIO Cloud has resulted in reduced support requests from customers,” said Clive Swanepoel, Owner of ZebraHost. “The intuitive dashboard and the speed with which tasks can be completed is groundbreaking.”
VergeIO provides a homogenous cloud data center system that enables Managed Service Providers (MSPs) like ZebraHost to build, deploy, manage, and grow their own virtual data centers. Prior to VergeIO, ZebraHost relied on multiple solutions for their hypervisor, disaster recovery, and backup services. With VergeIO, ZebraHost experiences a fully integrated system that incorporates streamlined cloud services and offers a unique alternative to the public cloud.
“The ability to hand over each and every client their own hypervisor is a game changer,” said Nate Battles, Managing Partner at ZebraHost. “Prior to VergeIO, everything that we really needed in order to handle our day-to-day server management tasks meant spending more on a new hypervisor or expensive licensing for a new tool. With VergeIO, we have the ability to incorporate the hypervisor, the backups, the networking, and the multi-tenancy private clouds that separate our offerings from the public clouds and other service providers.”
With physical data centers in North America, Asia, and Europe, ZebraHost finds the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for businesses of any size and to easily deploy services to their customer base. ZebraHost indicates that VergeIO compliments their commitment to efficiency through quick installation, configuration, and on-going support.
“Our experiences with VergeIO have been incredible,” said Battles. “From the mind-boggling fast set up, to racking, installing and spinning up our first VergeIO cluster within half a day, to the fast response time from the support staff…our experiences have been fantastic.”
Managed services providers (MSPs) like ZebraHost are constantly looking to improve services in order to better support their customers. As technology becomes more demanding, so do their standards. VergeIO looks forward to continuing to deliver comprehensive and unique IT solutions to MSPs like ZebraHost that surpass the current needs of IT services.
About VergeIO
VergeIO is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company headquartered in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. VergeIO offers one product with multiple solutions that streamlines the cloud building experience. VergeIO’s components are fully integrated so IT teams can build, deploy, and manage nested multi-tenant cloud data centers and services in minutes.
About ZebraHost
ZebraHost is a leading hosting and technology consulting company which specializes in disaster recovery, backup and migration solutions. Since its founding in 2000, ZebraHost has continuously expanded its server management solutions and now has servers in data centers worldwide.