Astute Networks, Inc., the leading provider of performance storage appliances,
today announced strong growth in 2012 as demand for its ViSX family of networked
flash solutions for virtual and physical environments escalates. Astute has
pioneered a network-attached flash appliance technology to overcome the
application performance limitations common in demanding virtual and physical
environments.
The impact of flash storage was significant in 2012, but
it will explode in 2013. According to IDC the solid state storage market is
expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 51.5% and will continue to
grow to $5.8 billion by 2015. Astute is capitalizing on this burgeoning market
opportunity to help enterprises easily overcome the performance barriers
plaguing their I/O-intensive application environments.
Applications such
as virtualized databases and VDI have demanding I/O performance characteristics
that legacy storage architectures were never designed to support. The Astute
ViSX performance storage appliance was purpose-built to address I/O-intensive
applications. ViSX incorporates the patented DataPump EngineTM processor that
completely offloads and dramatically accelerates network and storage protocol
processing. The combination of a network-optimized flash and an advanced
protocol processor eliminates all critical I/O bottlenecks that affect
application and VDI performance and delivers unprecedented random IOPS
performance and IOPS per dollar.
The Evaluator Group validated Astute
Networks, as delivering the industry's best VDI performance at the lowest cost
in its industry benchmark report. As a result, the Evaluator Group concluded
that Astute's ViSX Flash-based storage appliance offered:
- The industry's
lowest cost storage device on a per VDI user basis
- The highest number of
VDI users for any iSCSI connected storage device
- The Industry's highest
IOPS for any iSCSI connected storage device
Key Astute milestones in 2012
include the following:
- Close of $12 million in Series B financing, led by
Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC), the investment arm of Samsung
Group, the world's leading provider of NAND Flash memory
- Unveiled ViSX G4
performance storage appliance featuring Astute's 100 percent Networked Flash
architecture and game-changing, patented DataPump Engine. ViSX G4 eliminates
the barriers to virtualizing Tier 1 business-critical applications, broadly
deploying VDI, and increasing VM density. ViSX G4 can increase application
performance by up to 10x in a matter of minutes
- Appointed former HP and
LeftHand sales veteran Steve Kucker as vice president of sales, former Virtual
Instruments marketing executive Len Rosenthal as senior vice president of
marketing, and former EMC financial executive Brooke Beers as CFO
- Launched
AstuteNET partner program to enhance growth and profit for distributors,
resellers, system integrators, and service providers selling Astute's ViSX
performance storage appliances
- Storage Magazine named Astute Networks a
2012 Product of the Year finalist in the Enterprise Storage System category
- CRN Magazine selected Astute Networks among the top "10 Hot Tech Startups for
June 2012" and one of "The 10 Coolest Startups of 2012"
"From day one we
designed a networked flash solution that eliminates performance barriers
impacting virtual and physical applications today and tomorrow," said Len
Rosenthal, senior vice president of marketing, Astute Networks. "As the
virtualization market continues to explode, so does the need for scalable,
reliable, low cost solid state storage that can deliver the performance
improvements that help organizations realize the true potential of their virtual
infrastructure investments. We are perfectly positioned to capitalize on this
dramatic market opportunity wave with one of the most game-changing solutions in
the industry."