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Isilon
is increasing its presence in the VMware space taking their scale-out
NAS capabilities to the server virtualization market. As we talked
about in our article "What's Causing the Storage
IO Bottleneck", VMware is one of those environments that has
a lot of storage IO requesters (Virtual Machines and Physical Hosts)
generating highly random workloads. Isilon can deliver all the benefits
of NFS mounted VMware virtual machines and by leveraging the scale-out
nature of their environment, make the storage environment as agile as
the server virtualization environment.

Storspeed provides
application aware caching. Application aware caching allows customers
to separate the purchase of performance from the purchase of capacity.
This can be done by leveraging and extending caching technologies
across multiple tiers of storage. The Storspeed SP5000
Application-Aware Caching solution installs between clients and the
file based storage systems. It uses advanced packet inspection
processes to analyze all of the traffic flowing to and from the
storage. With this knowledge it takes the most active blocks of storage
and moves them into a three node RAM based Tier 0 storage cluster.

Application
aware caching makes sure that your most active data is always coming
from the fastest possible storage tier. What makes this solution really
make sense is that it is dynamic. It is constantly optimizing through
either its own analysis or your policies to make sure that the most
active data is always being promoted up the storage tier.

Asigra is an enabler of
service providers to offer cloud backup services who charge their
customers a monthly subscription. These providers have the ability to
provide the service in a private fashion as well, so end user
organizations can have the operation on-site. They can then choose to
manage the products themselves or allow the provider to do it for them.
At the heart of it is an agent-less backup application that
deduplicates, compresses backup data and then replicates that data to a
DR location or the provider.

New for this show is that the
back-end repository is now freed from having to run on a separate
dedicated server, it can now run as a virtual appliance within the
VMware infrastructure. Mobility is a key function of cloud computing
and virtualization so it makes sense that the Asigra repository is in
line with that model.