To simplify operations and reduce data center costs, IT professionals need one infrastructure for Edge and Core data centers, not a dozen. So far, three-tier and hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) have fallen well short of the one-infrastructure mark. Atria, the new release of VergeOS, meets the…
While hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) catches the attention of many IT professionals, the HCI Disaster Recovery problem, while seldom talked about, could be its greatest weakness. Proper HCI protection and disaster recovery typically require a separate infrastructure with its own software and hardware. This requirement complicates…
For data centers, realizing the full value of scale requires a single infrastructure that can scale in multiple dimensions and address multiple use cases. Customers today can select a legacy, single-dimension, scale-out strategy like hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). However, they then experience scale-out sprawl because they…
Scaling infrastructure in three dimensions lowers the cost of equipping, operating, and upgrading the data center. The problem is that traditional three-tier (compute, storage and networks) can’t scale beyond a single silo. IT professionals will also find that even hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) falls short if…
VergeIO’s VergeOS is ultraconverged software that enables IT to move beyond HCI to UCI. Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) is complete convergence. Instead of layering virtualization, storage, and networking into a node, UCI integrates the three tiers into a cohesive operating environment that increases efficiency while reducing…
Storage vendors force you to replace your storage system every four to five years, so understanding the total cost of SAN replacement is critical for IT professionals to learn. After all, replacing a SAN (storage area network) or NAS (network attached storage) has more expenses…
According to a new study from Wanclouds, 81% of IT leaders say their C-suite has directed them to reduce or take no additional cloud spending as costs skyrocket… Read the article
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…
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…
When I was CEO of Online Tech (now Otava) we did a lot of unit cost economics on every service we sold. Each service had it’s own SKU. We had a few 100 of them. So, there was a SKU for a cloud server. There was a…