Ultraconverged

Infrastructure (UCI),
HCI Evolved

Top 3 Reasons to Choose VergeIO’s UCI:

Key Benefits: 1. Hyperconvergence Redefined: VergeIO’s

UCI integrates virtualization, storage, and
networking into a single, cohesive platform;
• Reduce Costs: 50% or more savings
VergeOS.
on day one!
HCI simply
repackages the
• Use Existing Hardware: Break free three data center
from restrictive Hardware Compatibility tiers as software
Lists (HCLs) with a true vendor agnostic but each tier
flexibility. still has its own
code base,
• Improved Agility: simpler provisioning, which decreases
faster time-to-market, deploying efficiency
and increases
applications faster, effortless scaling.
complexity.

• Increased Reliability: Ensure high

2. Seamless Integration: VergeIO’s UCI
availability, redundancy and data
seamlessly migrates from legacy hypervisors
protection, greatly minimizing downtime. like VMware or Hyper-V, ensuring a smooth
transition without disrupting operations.
• Enhanced Security: Enjoy a robust VergeOS provides a flexible and scalable
full suite of built in advanced security infrastructure foundation for your organization.
measures like encryption, access
controls, and much more, providing 3. Enhanced Performance: Because of
a solid, hardened foundation for your VergeOS’ efficiency you can deliver improved
performance and higher virtual machine
organization’s data security strategy.
density. Benefit from high-speed processing,
and reduced latency, enabling faster
application delivery and better
user experiences.
 Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI), HCI Evolved
Scale for Today and the Future

Scalability and Flexibility: Increased Reliability:

VergeIO’s UCI architecture offers seamless Ensure high availability and data protection with
scalability to accommodate the evolving needs VergeIO’s UCI solution. Built-in redundancy and
of your organization. Easily scale up or down by advanced data protection mechanisms safeguard
adding or removing nodes, ensuring optimal your critical workloads against failures, minimizing
resource utilization and cost efficiency. downtime and ensuring business continuity.

Improved Agility: Ransomware Ready:

VergeIO’s UCI empowers organizations with VergeIO enables organizations to increase the
enhanced agility and faster time-to-market. frequency of protection events, and increase
Provisioning resources, deploying applications, retention capabilities. With VergeOS’ IOfortify,
and scaling infrastructure become quick and IT can receive nearly real-time notifications of
efficient processes, enabling rapid response to suspicious behavior and attacks. Benefit from
changing business requirements. VergeOS’ ability to mount rather than copy, to
restore when it comes to recovery.
Vendor-agnostic Approach:
Unlike traditional HCI, VergeIO’s UCI adopts a Enhanced Security:
vendor-agnostic approach, allowing organizations VergeIO prioritizes security by implementing
the freedom to choose the best hardware and robust measures to protect your data and
software solutions that meet their specific needs. infrastructure. Benefit from features like
Enjoy the flexibility to leverage existing hardware encryption, access controls, and integrated
investments or explore new technologies without security solutions, providing a solid, hardened
vendor lock-in. foundation for your organization’s data
security strategy.
Simplified Management:
With VergeIO’s UCI solution, enjoy centralized
management and streamlined operations. The
intuitive interface and robust management tools
simplify routine tasks, allowing your IT team
to focus on strategic initiatives rather than
day-to-day maintenance.
SECURITY OVERVIEW

Two factor authentication

Inherently Secure Auto-enforce password policies
Verge.io does things differently. Instead of silos of
technologies knit together, it is a single, powerful Limit of unsuccessful login
piece of software. This offers numerous security attempts
benefits that are inherent in the architecture.
Ability to terminate user sessions

Ability to monitor and control

remote access sessions

Encryption at rest and in flight

SSL & AES 256 encryption

Monitor all infrastructure changes

Monitor all hardware events and

massive disk writes

Physical drives cannot be read

due to encryption and
Security Benefits and Features deduplications
Easy and secure patching with no downtime means
systems systems stay patched and secure. Prevents Layer 2 and 3 network and vLAN
one of the biggest root causes of an attack. support

Global data deduplication and 256-bit encryption at Intercommunication of isolated

rest and in transit makes sure your data is secure, services within networks
regardless of physical access.
Fast and cheap snapshots
Snapshot technology allows you to quickly recover protect against ransomware
data from a ransomware attack or other
cryptolockers event. Simplify adherence to
compliance standards such as
HIPAA, HITRUST, FISMA, NIST
800.172, FIPS and Common
Criteria and many others.

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SECURITY OVERVIEW

vSAN Integrity
The vSAN stores a cryptographic hash of every block of data written. When that data is
read, it is re-hashed and validated for integrity. This technique protects against silent
corruption and bit rot. In the event a bad block has been discovered, Verge.io checks for
redundant local copies. If none is found, Verge.io checks available DR/Backup sites in
real time. If found, the data block is repaired seamlessly, without user interaction, and
with no down time.
Encryption
Verge.io supports 256bit encryption at rest and in-transit within the environment and
externally. The API and web user interface use standard encryption which are not
optional.
Snapshots
Use snapshots to recover entire virtual data centers from a ransomware attack. Use
monitoring and logs to identify when the data was encrypted, then restore the snapshot
just before encryption. Resume operations in minutes.
Compliance
Use recipes to automatically create compliant virtual data centers. Recipes can
dramatically reduce complexity and cost to meet many compliance standards such as
HIPAA, HITRUST, FISMA, NIST 800.172, FIPS and Common Criteria and many more.
Encapsulation and Isolation
Each nested virtual data center is itself an entire own copy of the Verge.io operating
system and shares now instance with other virtual data centers. The result is highly
secure, highly portable, standalone virtual data centers.

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SECURITY OVERVIEW

Legacy Architecture Staffing

Legacy architecture requires
many disparate skills and
vendors. This makes wholistic
security difficult, as it must be
coordinated across different
teams and different vendors.

Verge.io Staffing
Verge.io can be managed and
administered by a few generalist IT
professionals with no multi-vendor
integration or coordination required.
A single simple, zero-downtime
crypto-verified patching schedule
means systems stay patched.

Verge.io’s single dashboard or API can be used by a NOC or SOC to monitor

and log hardware events, users and changes to any of the infrastructure.

Use low-level disk monitoring to identify the massive data writes caused by
ransomware encryption. Restore a snapshot just prior to the encryption to
rescue your data from a ransom demand.

Super efficient snapshot technology allows you to protect data against

ransomware attack.

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PATCHING VERGE.IO

The benefits of proper patching are well understood. Yet, for good reason,
patching often ends up as technical debt, left undone until some day in the
future “when there is more time.”

Patching
Traditional Stacks
Complex interactions
between the many
vendors’ patches
No easy way to test
patches in the lab

Requires multiple
specialists

Difficult to roll-back
when patching fails

Often requires
extended downtime

Patching Verge.io
Verge.io is one piece of software that only has Easy to rollback Automatic workload
one patch for the entire stack. Patching is migration for zero-
Can be done by downtime patching
easier and safer so it’s done more often
generalist IT staff
increasing the security profile of your IT stack. Encrypted distribution
One single patch assures safe patches

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PATCHING VERGE.IO

Crypto-Verified Firmware Patching Edge Servers

• Deliver entire virtual data centers to
Patches are crypto- Prevent man-in-the-middle the edge on minimum hardware with
verified for authenticity attacks a single software license.
• Built-in resiliency and remote
Avoid update server No unauthorized synchronization.
impersonation patches • Self-monitoring and self-healing data
storage maximizes life of hardware.

New Cloud Offering

• Launch a new cost-effective,
powerful cloud offering in minutes.
• Provide compliant virtual data
centers for customers workloads.
• Sell white-label or branded cloud
through a reseller channel.
• Earn dramatically higher gross
margins than public cloud or legacy
providers can deliver.

Repatriation
• Return workloads to your premise
while retaining the power of the
cloud.
• Avoid the anxiety and surprise of the
hyper-scalers unpredictable and
complex billing.
Our customers are providers of infrastructure to • Assure adherence to compliance
internal or external customers. Verge.io simplified and security standards
their environment reducing costs, increasing agility
and enabling new offerings. Typical Workloads
• Host legacy applications
• Cloud hosting
• Replace legacy hardware
• Honey-pot for testing
• Test / Dev environments
• Migrations

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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Reliable IT infrastructure and the cloud have

become too complex and too expensive.
Traditional Stack Or Cloud
Capex & Opex Multiple “Portals”
Intensive from vendors
10+ Vendors Hidden and
unpredictable costs
4+ Type of IT Expensive and complex
Specialists orchestration required

We replaced the traditional stack with

a single, powerful piece of software. Simplify IT
We started from scratch. Ignored the
Reduce costs by 1 software license
up to 2/3 for the entire stack
siloes of today’s IT stack.
Global Managed by We imagined single, powerful, thin
Deduplication generalist IT staff software running on commodity
One dashboard One API hardware relying on AI and ML for self-
management.
Predictable simple Single, zero-
An IT generalist should be able to
pricing downtime patching
deliver virtual data centers in mouse
clicks at a fraction of the Capex and
Opex of traditional stacks.
We imagine a future where IT staff and
CFO’s get a break.
Verge.io has built that future.
We are passionate about using
software to create better IT.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

- Apple

“Since installing Verge.io, we’ve seen a 50% reduction in hardware and software costs, twice the
monthly margin on each customer that converts, and at least a 30% reduction in daily support
tasks for our customers.” - Nate Battle; Managing Partner, Zebrahost, Inc.

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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Edge Servers
• Deliver entire virtual data centers to the
edge on minimum hardware with a
single software license.
• Built-in resiliency and remote
synchronization.
• Self-monitoring and self-healing data
storage maximizes life of hardware.

New Cloud Offering

• Launch a new cost-effective, powerful
cloud offering in minutes.
• Provide compliant virtual data centers
for customers workloads.
• Sell white-label or branded cloud
Encapsulated Virtual Data Centers through a reseller channel.
Verge.io liquidates the CPU, RAM, storage and • Earn dramatically higher gross
margins than public cloud or legacy
network resources on the underlying commodity providers can deliver.
x86 servers and allows you to carve up the
resources into nested Virtual Data Centers (VDCs).
Repatriation
Each VDC encapsulates the full stack: the SAN, • Return workloads to your premise
NAS, hypervisor/RAM, networking including LAN, while retaining the power of the cloud.
• Avoid the anxiety and surprise of the
BGP/OSPF, VPNs and more. hyper-scalers unpredictable and
complex billing.
Our customers are providers of infrastructure to
• Assure adherence to compliance and
internal or external customers. Verge.io simplified security standards
their environment reducing costs, increasing agility
and enabling new offerings.
Typical Workloads
• Host legacy applications
• Cloud hosting
• Replace legacy hardware
• Honey-pot for testing
• Test / Dev environments
• Migrations

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 Secure
Research
Computing

Key Benefits: Top 4 Reasons to Choose VergeIO for

• Delivers compliant virtual data centers
Secure Research Computing:
in minutes: Researchers spend more
1. Serve Research Grants:
time on research, less time waiting for Verge.IO’s VergeOS enables you to segregate
compliance certifications. resources, billing, security, and compliance
requirements by creating different tenants for
• Expand resources easily throughout each research grant.
the life of a research project: Use
existing hardware or add additional 2. Improve and Simplify Compliance:
resources with the click of a button. VergeOS allows you to create secure enclaves
in minutes that are compliant with standards
• Provide a safe and secure environment such as HIPAA, CUI, FISMA, and more.
for researchers: Create secure enclaves
for research and remote learning. 3. Lower Capital Expenditures:
VergeOS lets you scale simply by adding
• Protect and Retain Data for a compute nodes or storage servers,
independently as needed.
Compliant IT Infrastructure: Customized
data protection and retention strategies
for each VDC without sub-silos. 4. Disaster Recovery:
Verge.IO snapshots and multi-site
synchronization are inherent in the architecture.
• Recover your Data After Disaster:
Failover an entire virtual data center, including
Make it possible to bring researchers/ public IP addresses, DR, backup.
departments data back online within
minutes after a site failure.
Security without Silos

VergeOS offers a secure solution with its Virtual

Data Center (VDC) technology. Similar to how a
virtual machine encapsulates a physical server,
a VDC encapsulates an entire data center stack.
By utilizing VergeOS, customers can establish a
VDC for each research enclave, research project,
or research group, meeting all the compliance
requirements for protection, retention, and disaster
recovery needs. Each VDC has its own access
controls, authentication processes, and user
management functions.
Create multiple nested compliant virtual data centers with VergeOS
The Power of Virtual Data Centers

VDCs also allow for allocating specific computing and storage resources to particular departments,
preventing other departments from accessing those assets. IT can create a unique compliant IT
Infrastructure for each department as needed. Plus, the VDC provides flexibility to reallocate resources
when the department or workload no longer needs them, and IT can allocate more resources as a project
ramps up. Organizations can create a highly compliant VDC for regulated functions and a more general-
purpose VDC for other use cases.

Protecting and Retaining Data for a Compliant IT Infrastructure

With VergeOS, you customize data protection and retention strategies for each VDC, with built-in tools
to meet the unique needs of every department. VergeOS’s IOclone, combines the best capabilities of
snapshots and clones by leveraging unique Global Inline Deduplication technology. IOclone enables each
snapshot to be independent of the VM or Virtual Data Center it is copying. Because of the deduplication
process, these copies are made in milliseconds and are space efficient. IOclone snapshots are also
immutable so that nothing can alter them, which is often another compliance requirement.
TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

One Piece of Software

Create nested, multi-tenant virtual data centers in
mouse-clicks from liquified storage, RAM, CPU and Global Data Deduplication
network resources of commodity x86 servers. • Inline, block-level deduplication built
into the filesystem
• Data encrypted at rest and in transit
• Dramatically reduces hardware
• Snapshot 100s of TBs of data in
seconds
• WAN optimized deduplicated
replication
• Asynchronous data replication for
DR and Business Continuity

Data Center Encapsulation

• Storage, network, compute and
RAM are abstracted into a single
encapsulated Virtual Data Center
(VDC)
• Public and Private Networking can
be assigned and isolated to
individual VDCs
One Dashboard. One API. One • Each VDC is its own instance of the
Patch. Zero Integration. operating system and stands alone
with no dependencies
Replace 10 Extend the life of
licenses and your hardware Nested Multi-Tenant
vendors with 1 • Allocate CPU, storage, RAM, and
Easily scalable, Standardize compliance network resources to sub-tenants in
just add servers with recipes real time
• Custom sub-tenant branding, Great
Increase agility, Reduce costs by up for white-label resellers
create virtual data to 2/3rd • Use sub-tenants to segment
centers in seconds workloads for compliance,
Predictable, All the benefits of chargeback, and secure enclaves
controllable, Simplifying IT
transparent spend Automation Recipes
• Automate any function in Verge.io
with recipes and APIs
• Use recipes to create sub-tenants
and VM templates according to
standardized compliance

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TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

Multi-Tenant Virtual Data Centers General System Features

Only Verge.io allows you to create sub-tenant • Multi-tenant/cluster/site platform
virtual data centers. • Create multiple virtual data centers
• Intuitive web-based dashboard
Within the core VDC, the virtualized pooled • Recipe based automation
resources can be provisioned to create self- • Monitoring, managing and alerting
contained, sub-tenant VDCs – each its own • Statistics & accounting
secure enclave. • Rest-like API

Use tenancy to segment infrastructure by Storage

compliance needs, or by customer, reseller, • Scale out vSAN
researcher or business unit. • No 3rd party software required
• Global inline deduplication
• Corruption detection & correction
• Dedupe-aware data replication
• Automated health scanning
• Multi-Tiered Storage Levels
• Live maintenance software updates
• 256 Bit Encryption
Compute
• Built-in hypervisor (QEMU/KVM)
• Intel / AMD CPU support
• Linux and Windows Guest Support
• Live VM migration – zero downtime
• Web-based machine management
• Web-based VM Guest console
• GPU and vGPU pass through
• Bare metal-like performance
• Automated VM snapshot & retention
Easy to Buy Network
Verge.io is licensed by the RAM and Storage • Built-in web-based firewall
used by your workloads. • IPsec and WireGuard VPN
• External/Internal network
Consumption – Pay monthly for the RAM and • NAT/PAT rules engine
Storage consumed by your workloads. Ideal for • Packet rate throttling
• Real-time and historical metrics
growing or nonpersistent workloads. • BGP; OSPF; vLAN; vXLAN
Capacity – Pay annually up front for the RAM • DHCP/DNS server
• IP address management
and Storage capacity your workloads can • Authoritative DNS
consume. Ideal for large and persistent
workloads. Verge OS
• Automatic non-disruptive updates
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There's nothing like seeing it to believe it. • Automated install supports PXE
• Linux based kernel
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