Pivot3 Brings Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Technology to vSphere

Pivot3, Inc., in hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), announced it will bring its HCI technology to vSphere 6.

vSphere 6 is a virtualization platform for hybrid cloud and the foundation for the software-defined data center. It provides customers with a highly available, resilient, on-demand cloud infrastructure to run, protect and manage any application.

The newest edition of Pivot3’s patented vSTAC OS software, vSTAC OS 7 which uses patented Scalar Erasure Coding technology, is built on a foundation of vSphere 6 which enables GPU virtualization, higher fault tolerance and greater availability on Pivot3’s HCI platforms.

The upcoming release of the vSTAC OS Management Client Integration Plug-In integrates with the vSphere 6 Web Client interface to enable users to manage their entire Pivot3 hyper-converged array of nodes which scales to petabytes of storage and millions of IO/s – all from a central console.

Pivot3’s HCI solution helps enterprises achieve low TCO by providing combined virtualized shared storage and compute power on the same platform, eliminating the need for separate physical SANs and servers. The streamlined vSTAC OS 7 dashboard provides VMware server administrators and application owners with an easy-to-manage status view and control console for the combined Pivot3 virtual SAN and compute environment.

“Pivot3’s HCI provides the performance and high-availability of shared storage without the need for expensive external storage arrays,” said Ron Nash, CEO, Pivot3. “With Pivot3 global HCI, growing enterprises and organizations with multiple locations, such as remote or branch offices (ROBOs), can deploy critical applications and associated data onsite so that they are available at all times without needing access to company-wide networks.“

Pivot3 also supports End User Computing (EUC) licensing of VMware Horizon 6 for desktop virtualization. VMware Horizon provides end-users access to all of their virtual desktops, applications and online services through a single workspace.

“Pivot3’s HCI with vSphere 6 provides enterprise customers with a scale-out, distributed storage architecture,” said Howard Hall, senior director, global technology partner organization, VMware. “Pivot3’s efficient, high-performance infrastructure combining storage and compute capabilities with vSphere can accelerate time to value for organizations, which means that they can now deploy their solution much faster with less specialized expertise, all at a lower cost. The result is that customers can benefit from increased CPU power to more efficiently run advanced vSphere 6 features.“

Pivot3, with its efficient and scalable HCI, has been a VMware supporter since 2008. The support for vSphere 6 builds on Pivot3’s longstanding partnership with VMware, which includes support for VMware Horizon and VMware Mirage, as well as 100% reliance on vSphere.

Pivot3 has 1,600 customers around the world. Enterprise customers who buy Pivot3 HCI also buy Enterprise and Enterprise Plus licenses from VMware. Pivot3 is also an OEM and Technology Alliance Partner, and is a top tier sponsor of VMware User Group and VMware vForum.