Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions Provider

Storcom is a leading hyperconverged infrastructure solutions provider

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Take your data center to the next level by leveraging a hyperconverged infrastructure solution. Hyperconvergence is the comprehensive and modern approach to managing compute, storage, networking, and security in a single platform. Storcom knows the infrastructure landscape. We have been a leader in the information technology industry for 20 years and have evolved as technologies have advanced from traditional to converged and hyperconverged infrastructure. Collapsing silos with a hyperconverged infrastructure solution may be the way to go for businesses that want to reduce their data center footprint.

Hyperconverged infrastructure, also known as HCI, streamlines the deployment, management, and scaling of data center resources by combining x86-based server and storage resources with intelligent software in a turnkey, custom-tailored solution.

Storcom’s experience across a myriad of hyperconverged infrastructure technologies allows us to guide our clients to the best fit for their specific environment and workloads. We also have the in-house talent to help you migrate technology, data, and apps to the latest hyperconverged infrastructure, as well as manage your IT staff and processes to help reduce complexity. We are a top provider of leading HCI technologies and solutions from HPE, Nutanix, Dell Technologies/EMC, and more.

Storcom Offers Best-in-Breed Technologies

Storcom has been early adopters of the most powerful hyperconverged infrastructure solution options in the industry. We offer the best data storage technologies from our partners to our clients.


Storcom Does it All

Storcom has the expertise to architect, implement, manage, and support the right hyperconverged infrastructure solution for your current workload environment and align it with business objectives to make the most impact.


Unparalleled Support

We offer 24/7/365 support for our clients. You can rest easy knowing that you will always reach a dedicated Storcom team member in your time of need.

Storcom Knows IT Infrastructure 

Adapting to data growth and the necessity to store it not just a matter of selecting infrastructure or data storage solutions, but rather finding an IT service provider that best understands your company and your data’s needs. Storcom doesn’t simply sell you a solution, we do a deep-dive into your environment to ensure that the solutions we provide are best suited for your company. Storcom believes that we can help you reduce the risk and the time it takes for you to select the right hyperconverged infrastructure solution for your current and future IT needs since we test all solutions and use them in-house and in our own data centers.

Managed IT Managed Services for Large Manufacturing Company

Provided Full Managed Services for Entire On-Premises and Disaster Recovery Site Infrastructure for Large Chicago-based Manufacturing

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Provided Managed Services and Colocation for Large Illinois-based Charter School District.

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Comprehensive IT Infrastructure Solution for Global Company

Designed and Implemented an Entire Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution for a large global event production company.

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Storcom’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions

Storcom offers the latest and greatest hyperconverged infrastructure solutions technology from the leading manufacturers in information technology.

VMware VSAN

vSAN delivers flash-optimized, secure shared storage with the simplicity of an experience native to VMware vSphere® for all your critical virtualized workloads. vSAN runs on industry-standard x86 servers and components that help lower TCO by up to 50% versus traditional storage. It delivers the agility to easily scale IT with a comprehensive suite of software solutions and offers the first native software-based, FIPS 140-2 validated HCI encryption.

HPE SimpliVity

Streamline IT operations with a fast, simple, and efficient hyperconverged platform. HPE SimpliVity combines your IT infrastructure and advanced data services into a single, integrated all-flash solution at a fraction of the cost of traditional offerings. Gain VM management and mobility, built-in backup and DR, and game-changing data efficiency in this award-winning hyperconverged solution. Converge your entire IT stack and get the industry’s most complete guarantee.

Dell/EMC VXrail

Transform IT with VxRail, powered by VMware vSAN. Powered by VMware vSAN and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, VxRail is the only fully integrated, pre-configured, and pre-tested hyperconverged appliance on the market. VxRail transforms HCI networking and simplifies VMware cloud adoption, while meeting any HCI use case, including support for the most demanding workloads and applications.

Nutanix

Nutanix enables IT teams to build and operate powerful multi-cloud architectures. Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software melds private, public and distributed cloud operating environments and provides a single point of control to manage IT infrastructure and applications at any scale.

HPE Primera

HPE’s Primera, a dHCI offering, is one of the world’s most intelligent tier 0 storage solutions for mission-critical applications. Primera delivers extreme resilience and performance with the agility of the Cloud. This disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure storage solution sets itself apart from competitors with its Nimble support.

Stratoscale

Run and scale cloud-native applications anywhere inspired by advanced cloud practices, Stratoscale provides development teams and IT the building blocks to build modern applications faster and continuously scale to meet evolving business needs.

Stratoscale offers a comprehensive AWS-compatible services suite (Stratoscale Chorus) and IaaS (Stratoscale Symphony) so that the data center is transformed into an agile, flexible and scalable environment, aligned with the public cloud.

Notable Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions

  • Simplified management: implement, operate, and manage from common interfaces easily and efficiently
  • Improved performance: experience resilience, high-availability for mission-critical workloads, and always-on inline deduplication and compression.
  • Elastic scalability: go from three to four nodes to very large clusters – without compromise.
  • Increased flexibility – Tune infrastructure between high capacity, high compute, and high memory workloads.
  • Reduces infrastructure and hardware footprint
  • Best-in-class malware/ransomware protection
  • Simplified disaster recovery
  • Eliminate the need for 3rd backup software

Notable Use Cases for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions

Use cases for hyperconverged infrastructure solutions include:

  • Remote offices/branch offices (ROBO)
  • Virtual desktop
  • Hybrid cloud
  • Containers

Notable Disadvantages of Hyperconverged Infrastructure

The cons of hyperconverged infrastructure are:

  • Potential problems with scalability
  • Vendor lock-in
  • Potential problems with licensing
  • Upfront cost
  • Difficulty in handling unusual applications and workloads

Notable Pros of Traditional IT Infrastructure

The pros of traditional IT infrastructure are:

  • More flexibility in scalability
  • Better resource utilization
  • In a non-linear growth model, 3-Tiered Infrastructure still provides the most flexibility
  • Ability to mix and match different hardware configurations to leverage best-of-breed technologies
  • Support for non-virtualized workloads
  • Better support for heterogeneous operating systems

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions FAQS

Learn more about hyperconverged infrastructure solutions with Storcom’s comprehensive library of definitions and Frequently Asked Questions.

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What are the Biggest Disadvantages of Virtualization?

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Disadvantages of virtualization are almost non-existent when compared to the multiple advantages it offers. However, the major pitfalls of virtualization to consider are:

  • Costs associated with software licensing
  • Training expenditures for IT staff in virtualization
  • Initial cost and time of implementation
  • Security concerns that must be addressed when implementing virtualization
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What are the Biggest Overall Advantages of Virtualization?

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There are many overall advantages to virtualization, but the ones which are most notable for influencing the decision to virtualize are:

  • Lowering overall IT costs: since virtualization doesn’t require actual hardware to be installed, IT departments find virtualization infrastructure cheaper to implement. There isn’t a need to dedicate a ton of space and money to on-site resources.
  • Predictable IT spend: since third-party providers like Storcom provide virtualization options, your organization can have predictable costs for your IT needs.
  • Better uptime: uptime is improved dramatically with virtualization. Most providers offer uptime of 99.9999%.
  • Quicker resource deployment: provisioning of resources is faster and simpler when virtualization is used.
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How Does Virtualization Produce Savings?

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X86 servers have their limitations, so many organizations need to deploy multiple servers which only operate at a fraction of their capacity in order to keep up with today’s high storage and processing demands. As a result, this creates excessive operating costs and is largely inefficient.

Virtualization solves this problem by relying on software to simulate hardware and create a virtual machine system. This allows IT organizations to run multiple virtual systems, and multiple apps and operating systems, on a single server.

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What is a Hypervisor?

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A “hypervisor” is, by definition, a thin layer of software which decouples the VM from the host and allocates computational resources to each VM when they are needed. A hypervisor is also known as a “virtual machine monitor (VMM).”

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What are Virtual Machines?

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The definition of a “VM,” or “virtual machine,” in computing is a type of software, firmware, or hardware with an OS and an application inside which emulates a computer system. Each VM is completely self-contained and independent. Having multiple virtual machines on a single computer allows several operating systems and applications to run on one host (or physical server). A computer that runs multiple virtual machines is called a “host machine” and each virtual machine is known as a “guest machine.”

The virtualized hardware resources may be shared by a variety of operating systems. For example, Mac OS, Linux, and Windows can all run on a single x86 machine.

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What’s the Difference Between Tiering and Caching?

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While “storage tiering” and “caching” are often used interchangeably, especially when discussing flash media, they are actually two different processes with different definitions. “Tiered data” resides on one media but moves between media as patterns of data access change. “Caching” places a copy of data on a high-performance mechanism like solid-state memory or dynamic RAM in order to improve performance. Cached data ultimately also resides on a lower storage tier like a hard-disk drive, while tiered storage moves data to a different storage mechanism and selects a location that adjusts availability, performance, and cost of storing the data.

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Why is Storage Tiering Important?

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Storage isn’t completed by just storing more and more data. Categorizing and identifying your data and information is equally as important. Storage tiering is paramount because it can be costly if done improperly. If your company is spending money on data that can easily be archived instead of “always on,” then your overall IT spend might not be properly optimized and other activities may be suffering as a result. If some systems takes hours to trawl back with data and information that you need, then your overall business might not be optimized properly. Storcom can help you tier your data to save you money and free up your IT team’s time and money. We understand the special sauce in IT storage: simplifying, standardizing, and automating your data storage infrastructure so you can focus on business instead of the technology that supports it.

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What is “hot data”?

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Hot data is data in which a company needs to access frequently. It tends to be business-critical or mission-critical data in which access needs to be rapid. Hot data tends to be stored in Tier 0 and Tier 1.

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What is Tiered Storage?

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Tiered storage assigns different categories of data to different types of media with the goal of reducing overall storage costs. Tiered storage architecture ranks data in a hierarchy based on its overall business value. Performance and cost of the media determine the tier in which the data is placed. Also, data is ranked in a tier by the frequency in which the data is accessed by users. Typically, the most important and business-critical data is paired with the fastest storage media, thus it is the most expensive. A traditional configuration has a fast tier of flash storage in order to achieve performance, and secondary data that is less critical may be kept on tape, disk, or in the Cloud. Archive tiers are composed of data that needs to be kept indefinitely.

WE HAVE UNIQUE PARTNERS THAT SPECIALIZE IN Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions


Storcom partners with best-in-class and emerging technology providers to enable our clients to stay on the cutting edge of information technology.

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