Gridstore Grid Qualified as “Perfect Complement” to VM Backup

The analyst firm, Storage Switzerland LLC.
identifies Gridstore Inc. grid
architecture as the perfect complement to VM-specific backup products.

In the recent article, Designing Disk for
VMware and Hyper-V Backups, written by Storage Switzerland lead analyst and
founder, George Crump, Gridstore’s The Grid is identified as an ideal storage
solution to meet the five demands of VM backup.

The firm highlights how companies like
Gridstore have addressed VM backup demands with software defined storage. The Grid virtualizes the entire storage stack to scale I/O capacity and performance
at a reasonable cost.

The Storage Switzerland paper identifies

five key dilemmasof VM backup
solved by
the Gridstore solution:

1. Sizing a disk backup infrastructure to
   support VM data protection
2. The need for random I/O backup
   performance
3. High performance restoration
   requirements
4. High reliability to assure zero data
   loss
5. The need for a storage platform that can
   meet backup needs almost as well as primary storage

"Gridstore’s
architecture, avoids the expensive problems of scale out storage systems by
leveraging the parallel compute of the connecting backup servers,"
said Crump in the paper. "Through
its vControllers, it leverages the compute power while at the same time, moves
the controller processing to the source – where it can optimize for the random
I/O. This combination still allows for very acceptable performance without the
cost of server class systems."

The Grid is an architecture that
delivers scalability, fault-tolerance, performance and resource efficienciesfor the mid-size enterprise
market.

"Today’s
mid market enterprises are just beginning their virtualization journey.
Ensuring that their VM backup environment is powerful, scalable and affordable
is critical," said Kelly Murphy, CEO of Gridstore. "The Storage Switzerland paper highlights how
The Grid can uniquely solve these key challenges while supporting even the most
rigorous backup and data protection demands from your virtualization
environment."