SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure to Support vSphere 6

SimpliVity Corp., in hyper-converged infrastructure for the software-defined data center, announced at the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) conference in San Francisco, CA that its hyper-converged infrastructure will support vSphere 6.

The company also announced coming support for the Intel Haswell processor, bringing enhanced performance to its OmniCube hyper-converged infrastructure system, and adding the SimpliVity OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server systems to its portfolio.

“There’s a lot of noise in the market today about hyper-convergence. Vendors are under pressure to say they have a hyper-converged solution because they know this is what today’s CIO wants: cloud economics with enterprise capabilities,” noted Doron Kempel, SimpliVity CEO. “But what other vendors are bringing to market are little more than rudimentary storage and servers, and other disparate products for data protection-cobbled together with no material efficiency or performance benefits. Running disparate software products on the same scarce Intel processors that also support business applications is inefficient and undermines performance. SimpliVity remains the first and only company to deliver a true hyperconverged solution by natively assimilating all IT infrastructure capabilities below the hypervisor-including native data protection, data efficiency and global unified management.“

As an established partner with VMware, SimpliVity will support VMware’s hypervisor upgrade, vSphere 6, in its hyper-converged infrastructure technology.

“We’re excited to see the great performance and scale enhancements of vSphere 6 and we’re committed to supporting vSphere for our customers as they upgrade,” added Jesse St. Laurent, VP of product strategy, SimpliVity. “VMware customers run their business-critical applications on SimpliVity’s hyper-converged infrastructure and rely on us to simplify IT below the hypervisor, providing 3x cost savings and increased operational efficiency.“

SimpliVity will also add support for the new Intel Haswell processor by the end of the first quarter for its OmniCube hyper-converged infrastructure platform and extend its support for Cisco UCS systems. Specifically, support for the Haswell processor will enable customers to leverage OmniStack hyper-converged infrastructure platform with Cisco UCS C240 M4 Server Rack systems: enterprise servers designed to deliver performance, expandability and efficiency for storage and IO-intensive infrastructure workloads.

“Adding support for the next-gen Intel processor is something our customers are really excited about,” said St. Laurent. “They get to run more VMs with more resources and better performance, in the same hyper converged infrastructure platform, powerful enough to run their entire IT environment.“