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New SimpliVity OmniStack 3.0 Delivers Unparalleled Performance for VDI
SimpliVity,
a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure revolutionizing enterprise IT,
today announced the release of new VDI performance results, validated by
the Enterprise Strategy Group (News - Alert) and Login
VSI1. With the highest desktop density in the
hyperconverged category, SimpliVity's OmniStack 3.0 hyperconverged
infrastructure delivers the user experience enterprises need without
compromising budget or resiliency.
SimpliVity's VDI solution is powered by the company's recently
announced OmniStack 3.0 Data Virtualization Platform, which made
numerous enhancements to scalability and performance for single-site and
multi-site deployments.
The solution's new performance results highlight:
1. Superior user experience through unmatched VDI performance SimpliVity's
solution easily offers peak performance at very high desktop density and
eliminates VDI login storms by delivering 1,000 logins in 1,000 seconds
- nearly 3x faster than the standard Login VSI benchmark provisioning
speed and unparalleled in the hyperconvergence category.
2. Linear scalability from pilot to production with cost-efficient
VDI deployments SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure
provides simplified, ultra-fast provisioning and scaling for VDI without
sacrificing performance:
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Highest desktop density in the hyperconvergence category at 250
desktops per node without compromising budget, user experience, or
high availability
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Ultra-fast provisioning: 1,000 desktops deployed in 70 minutes
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Greater CAPEX and OPEX (News - Alert) savings by enabling full-clone desktop
deployments with the same data efficiency as linked-clones
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Low cost of entry with ability to easily scale from pilot to
production, including the ability to bring additional compute and
memory to the SimpliVity federation by leveraging existing server
investments, an approach which is unique to the industry
3. Enterprise-grade data protection and resiliency for VDI workloads SimpliVity
provides built-in backup and disaster recovery capabilities for the
entire virtual desktop infrastructure. The solution also ensures
resilient, highly available desktop operations with the ability to
withstand node failures with no loss of desktops and minimal increase in
latency.
OmniStack 3.0 delivers significant enhancements to VDI performance and
desktop density to deliver the best of both worlds, enterprise
capabilities and cloud economics, leveraging SimpliVity's unique
OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform. Along with VDI, SimpliVity is
architected to support a wide-range
of mission-critical workloads, from VDI to OLTP databases, Microsoft
Exchange, and SAP (News - Alert), for large single-site and multi-site deployments.
Supporting Quotes
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"As the leading retailer of storage and organization products in the
US, The Container Store puts high priority on efficiency and
simplicity, which is why wesought a partnership with SimpliVity to
enhance our IT infrastructure," said Jay Wehring, Platforms Director,
The Container Store. "Since 2014, we've deployed 47 hyperconverged
systems to support hundreds of employees across the company, including
a large VDI deployment in our Customer Solutions Department, which
serves our customers via phone, email or online chat. We've done this
by running VMware View for VDI, apps (including VDI) in our stores,
and internal testing and development. We've been impressed with
SimpliVity and would recommend them as a vendor partner."
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"The University of Namibia saw the value of SimpliVity's
hyperconverged infrastructure just one week after deploying the
solution for VDI - increasing our IT performance by 75%," said Angelo
Hammond, System Administrator at the University of Namibia Computer
Centre. "Cost-effective VDI was crucial to our implementation, and we
needed something in a single, easy-to-manage, scalable package.
SimpliVity not only provided those functionalities, but also other key
features, including disaster recovery and inline deduplication,
compression, and optimization, which put their solution over the top.
Plus their customer support is stellar. I have never seen or
experienced the level of support from other vendors that SimpliVity
provides."
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"Every virtual machine and application that is critical to our
business runs on SimpliVity, including VMware View VDI for all task
workers. It all goes over our 100Mbps pipe on 15-minute intervals from
Alabama to Texas for secure disaster recovery. It's amazing and has
simplified our IT," states Jeff Byers, IT Director at High Cotton.
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"SimpliVity continues to make great strides with every release and the
new VDI performance results are another testament to their execution
excellence," said Michael Burke, Managing Partner, Virtual Dynamix
(VDX). "Their unprecedented desktop density - 250 desktops per node -
with high availability and user experience will offer us to offer a
more economical solution to our customers without compromising
enterprise-grade availability and a consistent end user experience."
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"More and more enterprises are looking for an alternative to
traditional IT infrastructures for deploying VDI. These enterprises
want more than just VM mobility, they want data mobility and more
control of their infrastructure," said Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. "Hyperconverged infrastructure is
starting to fill that role in the enterprise and will be a
game-changer for VDI by allowing enterprises to be more agile, move
faster and focus their budgets on what matters - adding business
value, not keeping the lights on."
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"VDI is often plagued by high costs, unsatisfied users, massive
complexity, scaling issues, low performance, and high data protection
risks," said Doron Kempel, CEO, SimpliVity. "Only SimpliVity's
hyperconverged infrastructure has the power to deliver the high
performance, scalability, and availability to solve those problems for
VDI without compromising user experience or cost efficiency."
Resources
About SimpliVity Founded with a mission to simplify IT,
SimpliVity is a pioneer in the hyperconverged infrastructure market,
disrupting the status quo of complex and cumbersome legacy IT systems.
SimpliVity's hyperconverged IT platform delivers enterprise-class
performance and availability that today's IT leaders require, with the
cloud economics their business demands. No other company has taken on
the mega task of assimilating all IT elements below the hypervisor (8-12
disparate functions) into a simple 2U building block of x86 sharable
resources to deliver unmatched IT simplicity, operational efficiency,
and 3x TCO savings. The company's unique data virtualization
architecture improves performance, protection and data efficiency, while
also enabling global unified management from a single console.
SimpliVity has revolutionized IT systems for hundreds of enterprises
around the world. Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., the company has
raised more than $276 million in venture capital and employs more than
630 worldwide. SimpliVity's business model is 100 percent indirect, and
its solutions and professional services are available worldwide through
its network for resellers and distributors. For more information, visit http://www.simplivity.com.
1 The industry standard load testing solution for centralized
virtualized desktop environments
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