StorMagic Partner Testimonial: ROOST on HCI Benefits

Name: StorMagic Partner Testimonial: ROOST on HCI Benefits
Uploaded: 2026-07-15T17:39:27-04:00
Duration: 3 min 22 s
Description: Hear from Jelson Ghigonetto, Solution Architect at ROOST as he shares his experience as a StorMagic Partner - the challenges his customers face, the benefits StorMagic brings and what makes it easy to sell. Watch more testimonials from StorMagic partne...

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07/15/2026

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TL;DR

Hyperconverged infrastructure delivers significant cost savings on hardware support contracts because server maintenance costs remain flat regardless of disk count, unlike traditional storage arrays.
StorMagic's competitive advantage is its ability to integrate with existing infrastructure, while competitors like Nutanix and vSAN require isolated, proprietary environments.
A São Paulo state fire department has successfully run StorMagic SvSAN for five years, while abandoning a parallel vSAN deployment purchased at the same time.

Summary

In this partner testimonial, Jelson Ghigonetto, Solution Architect at ROOST Technology, discusses his experience selling StorMagic's hyperconverged infrastructure solutions. He emphasizes the economic advantages of hyperconvergence, particularly the cost savings on hardware support contracts compared to traditional physical storage systems. Ghigonetto highlights StorMagic's key differentiator: its ability to integrate with existing infrastructure, unlike competitors such as Nutanix, Cisco, and VMware vSAN that operate in isolation. He shares a customer success story from São Paulo state's fire department, which has been running StorMagic's SvSAN successfully for five years while a parallel vSAN deployment was abandoned. The testimonial positions StorMagic as the ideal solution for organizations expanding existing data centers rather than building greenfield environments.

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0:00 - Introduction
0:16 - Customer Challenges
1:14 - StorMagic Benefits
2:46 - São Paulo Case Study

Key Quotes

0:32 "If you buy a physical storage, the cost of service and maintenance contract is very expensive because you pay for each disk drive that is inside of the storage."
2:06 "If it's a brand new data center, Nutanix is a great solution. But if you are increasing the size of your data center, it's terrible because it's something that you work alone."
2:35 "I think that our product, StorMagic, has the advantage to be part of the new and the old."

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What are the main cost advantages of hyperconverged infrastructure over traditional storage?

With traditional physical storage, support contracts are priced per disk drive, making maintenance expensive. Hyperconverged systems use servers where support costs remain constant whether you have one disk or fifty, delivering significant savings on service and maintenance contracts.

How does StorMagic differ from competitors like Nutanix and vSAN?

StorMagic can integrate with both new and existing infrastructure, while Nutanix, Cisco, and vSAN operate as isolated systems that don't connect with legacy environments. This makes StorMagic ideal for expanding existing data centers rather than greenfield deployments.

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