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Friday, October 18, 2013

Violin goes native with Microsoft on all-flash arrays

Violin Memory Inc. this week launched a scale-out memory array platform that allows Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 to run natively on Violin's all-flash storage systems.

Violin claims the native support in-memory will increase performance for customers running Microsoft Hyper-V, SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, and the Server Message Block 3.0 NAS Protocol.

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Storage virtualization vendors look beyond VMware support

Although VMware remains the dominant server hypervisor, customers are turning to alternative hypervisors and frequently using more than one. When they do implement a hypervisor that's not from VMware, will they find the same depth of support from storage virtualization vendors?

The June 2012 "Worldwide Virtual Machine Software 2012-2016 Forecast" from Framingham, Mass.-based analyst firm IDC pointed to Microsoft's November 2012 release of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 as a significant factor in the 2013 market.

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Virsto upgrades virtual machine storage management SW for HA

Virsto Software Corp. this week updated its virtual machine storage management software for VMware Inc.'s vSphere server virtualization platform. Virsto for vSphere 2.0 includes improved high-availability functionality to protect data during hardware failures and increased support for Citrix Systems Inc.'s XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructure platform.

Virsto launched in 2010 with support only for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, and added its vSphere product in January 2012. Virsto's software, which the vendor refers to as a storage hypervisor, uses a logging architecture to improve virtual environment performance. It also supports writable clones and snapshots for provisioning storage and protecting data.

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