Pivot3 and StorMagic SvSAN are competing in the hyper-converged infrastructure space, with StorMagic having an edge due to its lightweight design, although Pivot3's robust capabilities cater to those needing a broader feature set.
Features: Pivot3 includes dynamic policy management, high availability, and extensive configurations, making it suitable for complex environments. StorMagic SvSAN offers simplicity, efficient resource use, and a minimalistic design, ideal for edge computing and smaller IT setups.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StorMagic SvSAN provides straightforward deployment with excellent documentation and support for quick setups. Pivot3 involves a more intricate deployment but offers comprehensive technical support for detailed configurations needed in complex environments.
Pricing and ROI: StorMagic SvSAN offers a cost-effective solution with low setup costs and significant ROI, suitable for smaller scale deployments. Pivot3's setup costs are higher, but its features provide substantial ROI for larger, demanding environments.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| StorMagic SvSAN | 2.0% |
| Pivot3 | 0.6% |
| Other | 97.4% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 18 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
Pivot3 improves the simplicity and economics of the enterprise data-center with industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure technology. By combining storage, compute, networking and virtualization on commodity hardware, Pivot3 provides software-defined platforms that let IT run multiple, mixed application workloads on a single infrastructure while guaranteeing performance to the applications that matter most. Pivot3’s agile infrastructure solutions extend performance, scale and efficiency across more of the data-center so customers can keep pace with the demands of modern business.
StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage used to eliminate downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea.
SvSAN provides organizations with a simple, 'set and forget' solution that enables lightweight high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, and support up to 1,000 2-node clusters. It provides a low barrier to entry with capacity-based licensing and minimal hardware requirements, allowing organizations to use existing equipment. Plus, any IT professional can deploy and manage 1,000 sites as easily as 1, with automation tools and scripts.
SvSAN gives organizations choice and control by allowing configurations of any x86 server models and storage types, even mixed within a cluster, while vSphere, Hyper-V or KVM hypervisors can be used. It is built to perform, with code that eliminates performance bottlenecks and caching features to boost performance and prevent over-provisioning. SvSAN accommodates future growth and technologies too, with support for containers and VMs, and allows compute and storage to be scaled easily and independently.
SvSAN's additional features help to deliver 100% uptime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, even with poor, unreliable networks, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades. Disaster protection is provided with capability for stretched clusters that reduce risk, plus extensive integrations with backup and DR providers and the option to add a third node to clusters. SvSAN also ensures data security with FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption, software RAID options and the elimination of split-brain risk.
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