SimpliVity Expands Hyperconverged Portfolio With Flash, DR, and VDI Capabilities

SimpliVity Corp. announced solutions and enhancements to its transformational data center technologies.

The company unveiled a high-powered, all-flash hyperconverged offering, a one-click DR solution, an application-aware backup capability, and increased scalability for VDI that broadens the company’s portfolio for providing top-tier performance and agility for the enterprise, while still being accessible for the midmarket.

“Extending our leadership in the hyperconverged space is dependent on our ability to innovate and broaden our offerings to further simplify today’s complex data center environments,” said Jesse St. Laurent, VP, product strategy, SimpliVity. “SimpliVity’s consistently high Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 90 demonstrates not only our outstanding customer satisfaction, but reflects our superior offerings as well. These new solutions get at the heart of some of the most common issues plaguing our customers-workload, data protection and scalability-and will greatly benefit both enterprise and midmarket customers.“

All-flash solution performs for most demanding workloads
Powered by company’s  Data Virtualization Platform, the all-flash solution provides peak and predictable performance for the most data-intensive applications, such as online transaction processing and big data analytics.

The solution:

• Accelerates application speeds and permits higher amounts of concurrent workloads-increasing application performance by up to 5X and reducing latency by up to 80%.

• Provides high level of resiliency to media failure with fewer nodes than other hyperconverged vendor.

• Delivers the best value of any all-flash hyperconverged solution with the low price per fully protected VM.

• Enables customers to choose their preferred x86 platform.

“Peak and predictable performance for mission-critical workloads is absolutely crucial to the success of our IT team and to our business,” said Steven Senecal, applied infrastructure technologist, Travelport. “We’ve already seen an incredible improvement in application performance since deploying SimpliVity, and that’s with the standard solution, so we are excited to see SimpliVity kick up performance yet another notch with the all-flash option.“

Data protection features unprecedented in hyperconverged market
As an hyperconverged infrastructure provider to deliver full-featured, built-in data protection, the firm holds a lead in features and capabilities surrounding backup and recovery. According to an IDC white paper ^(*), sponsored by the company, 51% of customers eliminate third-party backup and replication solutions in favor of firm’s built-in data protection.

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RapidDR fast-tracks DR for enterprise
According to the Ponemon Institute, downtime can cost businesses an average of $9,000 per minute, making DR essential for all organizations. RapidDR speeds up and simplifies the recovery of workloads in the event of a disaster by automating the process for all VMs.

The solution:

• Automates DR with a single click, minimizing service disruptions and reducing recovery times by 70% or more when compared to manual procedures.

• Eliminates the expense and complexity of special-purpose DR tools and stand-alone replication products.

• Streamlines the DR planning and configuration process with an intuitive, VM-centric, five-step GUI.

Application-aware backups provide more automation,
tighter integration for tier-1 apps
With 83% of customers running SQL Server on company’s hyperconverged infrastructure, the firm has expanded its capabilities for application-aware backups for SQL Server, allowing customers to:

• Integrate at the application level for SQL Server databases and automate backup and recovery activities to improve the operational efficiency of IT.

• Improve recovery point objectives and automate the recovery process, thereby shortening the recovery time for top tier applications.

• Eliminate third-party backup applications, dramatically reducing the TCO for the application.

Enterprise scale for VDI
As a LoginVSI-validated hyperconverged vendor, the company has extended its lead in VDI with the ability to support up to 4,000 office worker desktops in a single VDI building block.

Firm’s VDI solution:

• Delivers performing end-user experience at a lower cost per desktop by providing high density of desktops per node.

• Demonstrates VDI performance – 1,000 logins in 1,000s and 1,000 desktops provisioned in 70 minutes.

• Provides superior resiliency to keep desktops up and running with built-in data protection, HA, and site-to-site DR.

“The performance of SimpliVity’s VDI implementation was one of the key factors we considered when choosing vendors,” said Jay Wehring, director, platforms, The Container Store, Inc. “SimpliVity was the clear winner when we evaluated all the vendors for VDI, and greater scale at a lower cost per desktop puts them even further ahead of the pack.“

All of company’s solutions and enhancements will be available in Q4.

Additional resources:
Customer case studies
Blog on new solutions
Company’s all-flash solution in blog
RapidDR solution
Firm’s Data protection features
Company’s VDI solution

^(*) Source: IDC White Paper, sponsored by SimpliVity, SimpliVity Hyperconvergence Drives Operational Efficiency and Customers are Benefitting, April 2016.