Frank Denneman speaks exclusively to VMworld TV about Pernixdata

Storage is the single largest impediment for the penetration of virtualization within the enterprise data center. Existing network attached, shared storage is unable to keep up with the performance requirements of virtualization because of its antiquated design based on mechanical drives. However, these storage systems do a good job satisfying the capacity and data services requirements in the data center.

The advent of flash storage holds promise for satisfying the performance requirements provided it is used appropriately. Simply adding an all flash array inside a SAN is not the right answer because it is both operationally disruptive and simply moves the bottleneck to the network. PernixData believes the correct location for flash in the data center is on the server side. However, existing solutions for leveraging server-side flash are not enterprise class.

Instead they are caching solutions that satisfy niche use cases and cause operational disruption. Because of its scale out architecture and built-in clustering capabilities PernixData FVP is able to accelerate both read and write operations while guaranteeing no data loss. PernixData FVP supports clustered hypervisor features, such as VMware vMotion and DRS, transparently and without the need for special workflows or proprietary interfaces.

Finally, PernixData FVP embeds itself inside the hypervisor transparently and with zero disruption. This means enterprises can install PernixData FVP within minutes and reap immediate return on investments. As a result PernixData FVP is the first truly seamless and enterprise class, software-defined, scale-out Performance tier that leverages server-side flash for virtualized data centers.

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