European virtualization firm StorMagic announced a collaboration with Supermicro on virtualized infrastructure for edge and small data center environments.

Under the arrangement, Supermicro’s compact edge systems are offered in a bundle with StorMagic’s lightweight virtualization software, StorMagic SvHCI. The combined solution targets industries including retail, manufacturing, and healthcare to simplify virtualized IT infrastructure across distributed infrastructure, including remote office/branch office (ROBO) environments.

According to StorMagic, the solution reduces infrastructure footprint, power consumption, and operational overhead, ensuring consistent uptime for mission-critical workloads.

“As organizations rethink infrastructure investments at the edge, the economics of high availability are under greater scrutiny than ever,” said Scott Mann, SVP global sales, StorMagic. “Customers are increasingly focused on the hardware cost savings that come from deploying a resilient two-node architecture instead of a traditional three-node configuration Œ especially at a time when we’re seeing hardware prices increase by as much as 300% in some scenarios. The ability to reduce infrastructure footprint, power, and procurement costs without compromising availability is becoming a major differentiator for edge and ROBO environments. Supermicro with StorMagic will help customers achieve it.”

Founded in 2006 in Bristol, U.K., StorMagic specializes in software-defined storage and security for edge computing, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and retail. One of its leading products is its software-defined virtual storage area network (SvSAN), which directly competes with virtualization offerings such as VMware vSAN.

Sales SVP Mann Mann recently joined the firm from edge computing player Scale Computing, where he led as global channel chief. StorMagic framed the hire as helping to scale up its channel-first go-to-market strategy while broadening customer adoption across key edge computing markets.