“At a time when many brand name storage vendors are pushing customers toward a lock-in hardware strategy under the guise of “unified storage,” storage innovators continue to deconstruct the array and to platform services outside the box and in the network. Astute Networks is one such company. Their vision of placing Flash SSD in the network as a sharable resource makes a lot of sense for companies that want the highest performance but don’t want to rip and replace their gear. Tens of thousands of IOPS, but without the price tag: worth a look.”

“I/O is the next frontier to be conquered, especially if server virtualization is to embrace the next level of mission critical applications. A variety of approaches have hit the market to boost I/O, each with its own pros and cons. Astute Networks has focused squarely on delivering the highest performance from flash chips, best value for the money, a standard interface and support for multiple servers simultaneously. Customers will find this combination worthy of consideration.”

“It is rare that we see game changing technology in the marketplace but Astute has done it with their DataPump Engine™ under the hood of their ViSX G3 virtualization appliance. Their solution solves the performance challenge for virtualization in a way that sets it apart from everything we have seen in the competitive landscape today.”

“Managing both performance and capacity in a virtualized data center is challenging, and CIOs frequently find their virtualization investment coming up short: they run fewer VMs per host than originally planned, critical applications still reside on dedicated hardware because key stakeholders don't want to risk "iffy performance," and backup and recovery is just too slow. Astute Networks offers a simple, drop-in solution based on networked performance flash, an economical shared approach that should provide the performance and control necessary for IT to push virtualization out to a company's key applications.”

“The judges of the Flash Memory Summit Awards Committee are always looking for the next killer app for flash memory and Astute Networks has hit a homerun with their Networked Performance Flash™ solution as the Best of Show winner. Customers want to achieve the dream of Virtualizing 100% of their IT infrastructure and applications and Astute’s innovation of a totally integrated, network-based, shareable high performance flash memory appliance that leverages the advanced features of VMware delivers on that reality.”

“The ViSX G3 provides a turn-key solution that elegantly reduces or resolves one of the greatest challenges to virtual and cloud implementations, I/O performance, delivering improved service while reducing administrative efforts.”