Infinio Accelerator 1.0 Available ($499/CPU Socket)

Infinio Systems, Inc., inventor of downloadable storage performance, announced availability of its first product, Accelerator v1.0.

Infinio Accelerator dashboard displays performance metrics
about your accelerated datastores

The company also announced its partner referral program, offering an online way for resellers to do business with Infinio.

Infinio Accelerator offers a downloadable software-only solution to the problem of NAS storage performance in virtualized environments.

Key differentiators include:

No new hardware, no reboots – Accelerator is a 100% software-only solution requiring no new hardware and no service interruptions to install.
Accelerates all workload types – every VM and application associated with an accelerated datastore, including VDI, receives a performance boost.
Affordable for all sizes of organizations – at $499 per host socket, it offers a budget-friendly solution to storage performance improvement as virtual environments grow.
Easy to try and to buy – Accelerator can be downloaded, installed and tried in 30 minutes with no service interruption, and can be licensed via credit card, check, or wire transfer when the free 30-day trial is complete.
Logical predecessor to SSDs – whether or not flash storage is in a customer’s long-term plan, Accelerator offers performance gains at a fraction of the cost, extending the life of existing NAS hardware.

“While we’re very proud that this product has already won awards, the most important thing is how well it works for real-world customers,” said Infinio co-founder, CEO Arun Agarwal. “Interest has been strong throughout the beta period, and in fact, we already have a paying customer on our first day of availability.”

“We know that many of our potential customers rely on their trusted VARs,” Agarwal continued. “So we’ve also rolled out a partner referral program that is just as easy and frictionless as our product installation process.”

“Who doesn’t want to get more performance out of the storage hardware they already have?“, commented Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, ESG. “Infinio makes it simple for customers to download the software, install it without a reboot, and within minutes, have faster-running VMs. Making things go faster in a VMware environment is always good. Making them go faster for under $1,000 per server is brilliant.”

Accelerator v1.0 is available, with pricing at $499 USD per CPU socket for a perpetual license and one year of maintenance.

“Like any IT department, we’re trying to do more with less. Managing the IT infrastructure for a 3,500-person company, I need to get everything I can out of my existing architecture to support the business. Infinio lets me squeeze a little more newness out of old hardware, which is why we’re happy to be their first customer,” said James Hayes, divisional VP of IT, Hancock Fabrics.

“Currently I oversee a 300+ VM environment on 20 hosts in two datacenters. Infinio is easy to set up, with a polished interface. It’s unobtrusive, and we saw immediate reductions in read requests hitting back-end storage,” said Jonathan Frappier, VCAP5-DCD, VCP5-DCV, vExpert, senior systems administrator.

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