Be The Cloud

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have their place, but many IT leaders are reevaluating their cloud strategies. As more organizations move to the public cloud, they are finding it is:

? Difficult to guarantee workload performance

? Almost as hard to manage and operate as on-premises

? To have very unpredictable billing

? Much more expensive than on-premises

Running workload on-premises should have a cost advantage if the data center matches the cloud's operational capabilities. The cost of computing and even storage is more affordable than ever. However, the cloud has an advantage over most legacy solutions in terms of upgradeability. The provider still has the same headaches of upgrading to new hardware as an on-premises system, but they insulate the customer from them.??

Keeping or returning workloads on-premises will require a platform that can guarantee specific workload performance, provide better-than-cloud operational advantages, easy technology transitions, and lower upfront and long-term costs. The problem is that the current data center stack can't provide these results.?

Three-tier architectures are expensive upfront and require a refresh every four to five years. Hyperconverged architectures are supposed to be "cloud-like." Still, most HCI solutions are software-defined storage packages that run as a virtual machine within a separate hypervisor and do little, if anything, in terms of networking. There is little difference between HCI and three-tier architectures in terms of longevity, and in many cases, HCI is dramatically more expensive.?

To be the cloud, IT needs a new platform, an Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI), which can integrate the three tiers into a single cohesive data center operating system and a single code base. At VergeIO, we call our UCI solution VergeOS. It provides a highly optimized hypervisor, a robust storage infrastructure, and a complete complement of networking capabilities. It is efficient and capable of running more, providing more performance to more workloads on less hardware. The common code base eliminates IT drudgery. VergeOS transforms the data center into a private cloud for your organization to leverage in the same way you use the public cloud without the expense.?

With VergeOS, you can mix nodes of different types. For example, you can have a group of nodes that are Intel-based, a group of AMD-based nodes that deliver high-performance IOPS, and a group of nodes that provide cheap and deep storage. Then through our Virtual Data Center (VDC) technology, you can allocate specific resources to specific workloads, guaranteeing performance integrity. You can assign VDCs to your various lines of business and let them manage their data center without concern for them stealing resources from another.?

Regarding refreshes and migrations, those are a thing of the past with VergeOS. You can add new nodes of any type to the environment while maintaining the use of the existing nodes. Eventually, as nodes age out, remove them from the cluster, and VergeOS will automatically rebalance data and workloads. You also part ways with patch Tuesdays, replacing them which patch "minutes." The result is an easy-to-use solution that provides better-than-cloud functionality.??

In our latest release, VergeOS Atria, we've added a recipe engine and marketplace, which enable IT to provision virtual machines and even entire workloads with a single click. The recipe can preconfigure all the virtual machines, networking, storage, and data protection policies the workloads need to operate. As you provision VDCs to the various lines of business within your organization, the Recipe Marketplace gives them a catalog of VMs and workloads to deploy, meeting your exact specifications.?

Join us for our webinar on February 23rd at 1:00 PM ET and 10:00 AM PT. During the webinar, our panel of experts discusses how you can be the cloud and how to solve your Edge Computing challenges with the new VergeOS Atria.??