Infinio, a market leader in I/O optimization for virtualized data
centers, today unveiled new capabilities that will be available in v2.0
of Infinio Accelerator, being demonstrated this week in the VMworld
Solutions Exchange, booth 623.
“Last year we introduced the 1.0 version of our product at VMworld,
and were honored it was a finalist for the ‘Best New Technology’ award,”
said Arun Agarwal, Infinio Co-founder and CEO. “This year we’re excited
to show what’s coming next in version 2.0. The I/O optimization product
category is exploding, and we look forward to showing the community why
Infinio’s new offering is the best on the market.”
Infinio Accelerator was created to help virtualization administrators
scale storage performance to support growing virtualized enterprise
applications and desktops, without the traditionally associated
expensive upgrades to storage hardware. A software-only solution,
Infinio requires no new hardware and is operationally transparent. New
features in v2.0 include:
- SAN and Unified Storage support: In addition to
support for the NFS storage protocol, v2.0 will also include full
support for Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, and environments with multiple
protocols. No matter which storage protocol customers choose, the
Infinio user experience remains the same, including wizard-driven
installation, zero operational impact, and instant access to advanced
reporting.
- Application-level reporting: Infinio v2.0 adds the
ability to start with a weekly datastore performance view and drill all
the way down to a minute-by-minute per-application view of storage
performance. Users can easily identify peak latency spikes, and then
explore them at a level of detail that allows them to determine which
workloads are responsible for increasing the load on storage, and which
workloads are best suited for Infinio caching.
- Cache Advisor for smart sizing of memory: This new
feature is designed to help administrators determine how much RAM to
dedicate to Infinio’s cache. While many customers achieve strong results
with the default 8 GB of RAM per host, this new feature will allow them
to select any period of time and calculate what performance would have
looked like with one of several larger physical cache sizes. This
guidance, based on actual workload characteristics, will allow
administrators to fine-tune their cache size for optimal results.
- Continued innovation for VDI: More than one third
of current Infinio customers have found the product especially valuable
for VDI, and with v2.0, Infinio has tuned the cache with heuristics and
algorithms that better support VDI workloads. This will help
virtualization administrators provide an even better experience to
virtual desktop users while driving down the cost of VDI deployments.
More details about the product and a deeper look at the
underlying architecture will be discussed at Tech Field Day during
VMworld. More details and streaming video coverage will be available at http://techfieldday.com/event/vmwus14/.
Availability
Infinio Accelerator v2.0 will be in public beta later this year, with
general availability to follow. To be notified when the beta is
available, register here: Infinio Beta Program Notification. To learn more about what Infinio can do for you today, request a free 30-day trial, at www.infinio.com, or attend a live product demo by registering here: Infinio Product Demo