StorMagic Teams With HPE for Bundled On-Site HCI Solutions

StorMagic, an on-site virtualization company, recently announced the immediate availability of a new, integrated solution through a virtual OEM (V-OEM) collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).

Collaboration brings new VMware migration option to partners and customers

This new solution will allow organizations with decentralized business applications and data to easily size, order, and receive integrated, purpose-built hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions. 

“StorMagic is thrilled to extend our longstanding collaboration with HPE by offering tested, integrated solutions that are simple for customers to size, purchase, and deploy,” said StorMagic CEO Susan Odle. “As an HPE V-OEM participant, the agreement allows us to deliver a differentiated offering that enables our channel partners to capture significant VMware migration market share and helps customers mitigate uncertainty in today’s global economic environment with a proven solution from technology vendors that customers trust.”

The solution is an integrated HPE-certified one that is built on the HPE ProLiant Compute DL145 Gen11 server. It includes HPE iLO silicon root of trust, HPE Compute Ops Management. It features an AMD EPYC 8004 Series processor, which combines with StorMagic SvHCI to deliver a total HCI solution designed for retailers to help them meet small, medium, and large decentralized workloads.

“HPE is committed to delivering reliable HCI solutions to customers who value faster time-to-production and lower total cost of ownership,” said Phil Cutrone, senior vice president and general manager, OEM, Service Providers and Telco, at HPE. “Our long-standing relationship with StorMagic, now amplified through their participation in HPE V-OEM, will enable our joint customers to better customize server configurations to meet business needs.”

These integrated solutions are cost-effective and ideal for customers with one to thousands of locations, such as retailers, manufacturing plants, and healthcare organizations. Customers just build the configuration, place an order, schedule shipment directly to each site, and deploy the services into production.

The solutions are available to be quoted through HPE’s global network of authorized distributors.

“The HPE ProLiant DL145, powered by AMD, is a differentiated server, purpose-built for retailers of all sizes,” said Derek Dicker, vice president, server business unit, AMD. “Bundling StorMagic SvHCI delivers a total HCI solution that is affordable, high-performant, and reliable.”

StorMagic’s global channel partner program

Recently, StorMagic also launched a three-tier global partner program to boost partner margins with simple, cost-effective virtualization.

The program is designed for value-added resellers (VARs), distributors, OEMs, systems integrators (SIs), agents, and technical alliance partners, offering expanded benefits, sales tools, and flexibility to meet customer needs.

The three tiers of the program each provide partners with unique benefits, including discounts and training to further virtualization and enhance partner growth.

“StorMagic is committed to helping our partners achieve their business goals by continuously delivering flexible, reliable, affordable virtualization solutions that help keep our customers’ organizations running,” said Odle at the time of the announcement. “With this enhanced program, partners are uniquely positioned to help customers solve infrastructure challenges at decentralized locations, including managing migrating seamlessly from Broadcom/VMware, avoiding costly hardware upgrades and introducing more flexibility– all while maximizing their productivity and profitability.”

HPE has been working to expand solutions for virtualized workloads in recent weeks, announcing the expansion of its advanced private cloud portfolio. Read more about this new expansion and the features for customers.