GreenBytes Virtual Storage Appliance for Desktop Virtualization

GreenBytes,
Inc. announced the vIO, a virtual storage appliance version of
its desktop virtualization solution, the
IO Offload Engine.

It offers virtual desktop deployment
flexibility utilizing existing infrastructure resources, enabling
enterprises and service providers to scale their virtual desktop
environment as the business requires. With the company’s zero latency
inline dedupe technology, IT is able to deliver virtual desktops at
cloud-scale, providing end users with a virtual desktop experience
that is similar to the physical desktop they are familiar with, all
with 97% less storage space required.

The virtual storage appliance was
designed as a desktop virtualization solution, providing the
persistent virtual desktops that users want, with the manageability,
scalability and affordability that make it possible. The vIO diverts
OS and swap disk activity away from primary storage (SAN) to
high-speed flash, solving the performance and latency problems and
poor user experience that occur during peak usage. Integrated as an
appliance (IO Offload Engine) or virtual storage appliance (vIO), the
solution scales out in minutes, increasing performance, driving down
costs and avoiding user interruption while protecting existing
storage and infrastructure investments.

It enables IT administrators to
increase the performance of a new or existing VDI by integrating the
zero latency inline dedupe software and a PCIe, local SSD or
flash-based storage controller with a VMware ESXi host. By moving the
virtual desktop datastores to the vIO, inconsistent performance and
crippling congestion become a thing of the past. Deployed and ready
to present storage locally or externally via iSCSI or NFS in less
than five minutes, IT can deliver persistent or non-persistent
desktop images through their preferred desktop broker interface.

It is cloud-scalable and can size to
any desktop virtualization environment by deploying multiple
instances. A single vIO is designed to provide IO Offload for 100 or
more persistent or non persistent virtual desktops. For 1000+ virtual
desktop deployments, customers can also utilize the pre-configured IO
Offload Engine hardware appliance that supports up to 4500 persistent
desktops over 10GbE iSCSI or, 8 or 16Gb FC.

The vIO virtual storage appliance will
be available on March 1, 2013. GreenBytes will be
demonstrating the vIO at the VMware Partner Exchange, at the Mandalay
Bay in Las Vegas, NE, February 25-28, 2013.

Danny Allan, CTO, Desktone, said: "GreenBytes’ vIO is a
best-in-class solution, truly delivering on its promise of meeting
the most demanding desktop virtualization use cases. Their patented
zero latency inline deduplication technology delivers exceptional
performance, even during boot and provisioning activities, and is
completely transparent to existing architectures. The product is
mature, vendor agnostic, and can cost-effectively handle cloud-scale
deployments while offering a full-featured virtual desktop
experience, delivering on SLAs that end-users expect."

Steve Duplessie, founder and senior
analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said: "Large-scale deployments of VDI
are rare at best because users find VDI at scale is outrageously
expensive and complex. GreenBytes’ vIO for VDI ends both of these
issues, allowing VDI deployments to scale massively, easily, and
ridiculously inexpensively. I love this idea."

Steve O’Donnell, Chairman and CEO,
GreenBytes, said: "The vIO hits all of the CIO’s
concerns. It enables consistent and performant virtual desktops with
the infrastructure and architecture already in place, at a
market-leading price point. It is the simplest way to deploy desktop
virtualization, from departmental to cloud-scale. All the cost,
performance and user experience advantages of the IO Offload Engine
are now available to smaller enterprises, cloud-scale service
providers and OEMs with the vIO. Quick to install and deploy, with no
racking, stacking or cabling required, simply introduce the vIO
virtual storage appliance to the desktop virtualization
infrastructure, enter a few configuration details, press play, and
off you go.”