SimpliVity Optimizes and Expands OmniStack Platform

With a surging number of Global 2000 customers, SimpliVity Corp. revealed software enhancements, offerings, and tools to deliver greater productivity, higher availability, and risk mitigation for large and mid-size enterprises.

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OmniStack 3.5, the next iteration of the transformational technology behind company’s hyperconverged solutions and OmniView, a web-based support dashboard with predictive analytics, are fine-tuned to meet the requirements of enterprises with stringent SLAs, optimized IT service delivery, and larger, metro-area deployments. In addition, OmniStack for Hyper-V, an offering supported on Windows Server 2016, gives enterprises, particularly those with mixed hypervisor environments, more deployment and management options so they can choose the best solution for their IT infrastructure.

“SimpliVity’s foundational OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform was initially launched after 43 months in development, two to three times longer than other converged IT vendors. This investment allowed us to become the only hyperconverged vendor to assimilate all IT infrastructure below the hypervisor,” said Jesse St. Laurent, VP, product strategy, SimpliVity. “Now we’ve broadened our portfolio with OmniStack for Hyper-V, in addition to increasing productivity with sophisticated automation and predictive analysis, and delivering greater availability and risk mitigation through expanded multi-site deployment options.“

OmniStack 3.5’s intelligence and automation capabilities
increases enterprise productivity
Optimized for large, mission-critical, global enterprise deployments, OmniStack 3.5 is the latest version of firm’s transformational software technology behind its hyperconverged infrastructure.

Key capabilities include:

• The intelligent Workload Optimizer for first-class performance – OmniStack 3.5 ensures predictable application performance with the new Intelligent Workload Optimizer. By integrating intelligence about storage performance and data locations with vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler, OmniStack 3.5 can smartly migrate VMs to dynamically balance workloads.

• REST API for third party and custom app integration – Firm’s REST API accelerates the development and integration of third-party solutions and custom applications, utilizing intuitive standards and integrated development environments for rapid prototyping.

• Expanded support for multi-node stretched clusters – OmniStack 3.5’s increased enablement for multi-node stretched clusters mitigates risk, and improves IT availability and resilience by deploying infrastructure across large campus data centers that span multiple sites.

OmniView increases enterprise productivity
through predictive insights and automated analysis
Firm’s new web-based tool, OmniView, provides predictive analytics and trend analysis to customers with mission critical support plans, delivering actionable intelligence for optimzing performance and resource utilization, and effectively managing future growth.

Features include:

• Customized dashboards for monitoring all worldwide deployments, top to bottom, and rapidly diagnosing performance or latency issues

• Predictive analytics that enable administrators to easily visualize organic growth and anticipate future capacity requirements

• Convenient, secure web access with centralized data analysis and storage in SimpliVity’s support cloud.

OmniStack for Hyper-V provides more hypervisor options
Hyper-V is quickly increasing its market penetration and becoming an alternate hypervisor for many businesses, especially those maintaining multi-hypervisor environments. The company has extended the OmniStack Data Virtualization platform to support Hyper-V environments within Windows Server 2016 to offer more choice and flexibility to these large enterprises. OmniStack for Hyper-V delivers all the same benefits of firm’s hyperconverged infrastructure, including accelerated data efficiency, global unified management, and built-in data protection for Hyper-V based VMs running on SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure.

OmniStack 3.5 and OmniView will be available on April 18 and timing and availability of OmniStack for Hyper-V is aligned to the planned release of Windows Server 2016.

“SimpliVity just keeps getting better! The ease of managing a SimpliVity virtual environment is second to none. The ability to do file level restores is priceless. In my many years of being a Systems Admin, very few things have made me say ‘Wow! This is like magic!’ SimpliVity has allowed me to run over 50 VMs in a HA configuration, natively backing up mission critical servers every 15 minutes and I’m doing it all in 4U of rack space at less cost than replacing my traditional SAN storage. Oh yes, this is like magic! I can’t wait to see what the next version holds in store,” said Charlene Harsch, senior systems administrator, MCR Health Services.

“Users are looking for ways to simplify IT, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions like SimpliVity are helping users improve operational efficiencies. SimpliVity’s new product enhancements, including the support of OmniStack with Hyper-V inside Windows 2016 and a new web-based predictive analytics tool, will provide more flexibility, customization, and intelligence and help accelerate the workloads and use cases that can be moved from legacy to modern IT architectures,” said Stu Miniman, senior analyst, Wikibon.

“Only seven short months after releasing their most robust product since the company was founded, SimpliVity releases enhancements that expose us to a whole new division of the market with Hyper-V, and new capabilities that our users demand. SimpliVity’s constant drive for excellence and innovation makes them an invaluable partner to have in the IT infrastructure space,” said Stephen Oles, director, managing partner, director,sales, Cordicate IT LLC.