Pivot3 vSTAC VDI R2 Appliance Optimized for VMware View Storage Accelerator

Pivot3 Inc. announced its next generation vSTAC VDI R2 appliance optimized for View Storage Accelerator.

With over four times more RAM, and ten times more capacity, the vSTAC VDI R2 appliance saves customers up to 45% per desktop over the previous R1 generation.
 
"With the release of the vSTAC VDI R2, there can be no doubt that Pivot3 has dispelled the myth that VDI cannot compete for cost with conventional desktop PCs," commented Simon Bramfitt, founder and principle analyst at Entelechy Associates. "Pivot3 has delivered what was once considered impossible, a scalable high-performance VDI appliance that is equally at home in the data center or the branch office, that can deliver a virtual desktop for less than the cost of a PC."
 
Purpose built to exploit View Storage Accelerator, the vSTAC VDI R2 appliance allows for the reduction of expensive read caching hardware, while increasing performance by 10X.

Tested and certified for View 5.1 and vSphere 5.1, additional features of the purpose-built vSTAC VDI R2 appliance include:

• Two next-generation Xeon E5-2630 processors with six cores each, enabling fast processing for compute-intensive tasks and driving desktop count up to 125 per appliance, a 15% increase over the previous generation
• Selectable network speed configurability introducing a performance solution for 1GbE environments, while also supporting enterprises with 10GESelectable RAM 128/256/384 permitting maximum configurability for demanding 64 bit desktop workloads
• Selectable SATA storage capacity of 12/24/36TB facilitating user data to be stored in the same array with an optional NAS interface. This additional capacity allows full uncompressed Branch Office desktops to be deployed using the latest VMware Mirage technology
• Designed, tested and certified for PCIe graphics cards such as Teradici, the vSTAC VDI R2 can be configured to support the demanding video workloads
• A pre-packaged and configured P Cubed starter appliance that is certified as part of the VMware Rapid Desktop Appliance program

"Utilizing VMware’s Virtual Storage Accelerator technology has allowed us to reduce the hardware cost and complexity of our VDI solution while increasing performance," said Lee Caswell, founder and chief strategy officer at Pivot3. "Our vSTAC VDI R2 appliance continues to provide substantial enterprise-class value, performance and availability against both appliances and discrete physical server and storage products."
 
Pivot3’s latest vSTAC VDI R2 appliance will be available to order in November 2012.

List pricing starts at $29,999.