Building Future-Ready Micro-Datacenters At The Edge With Stormagic SvSAN
Gestalt IT, Thursday, October 12,2023
The edge has emerged as a dominant sector, and the center of all of IT's focus, as organizations embark on a mission to consolidate their workloads. But the world at the edge is not a new discovery. It has existed since before cloud and datacenters, and in fact, been so ubiquitous that it has been taken for granted until now.
The edge is where the physical sites are - oil rigs, mines, solar farms, retail stores, gas stations, supermarkets, points of sale and places of business.
'When we think of the edge, we think of small sites - where the data is being generated,' said Bruce Kornfeld, Chief Marketing and Product Officer, StorMagic, at the Edge Field Day presentation of their solution SvSAN with HPE.
These sites are each a tiny datacenter, producing and processing information 24/7. But their effectiveness, has always been on the low, compared to the traditional datacenters that we know of. The edge applications must sync with a set of remote servers to process the data. There's typically a time lag between sending that data over and receiving feedback. This has impacted the applications' responsiveness and availability for years.