Virtualization Solution Hive Fabric V.8.0 With Added Business Intelligence Capabilities and New Cloud Storage From HiveIO

HiveIO, Inc. announced version 8.0 of Hive Fabric, a virtualization solution that provides high-performing, scalable technology that removes complexity in the data center and delivers an IT experience.

This version provides protection for VMs and user data with its DR capability by integrating with cloud storage. 8.0 also incorporates advanced business intelligence tools into Hive Sense – a capability that proactively notifies HiveIO of an issue within a customer environment-to provide valuable insight to applications and resource utilization.

“With 8.0, we deliver a powerful disaster recovery solution capable of replicating VMs and user data to cloud-based storage such, Amazon S3, providing even more flexibility to our customers,“ said Toby Coleridge, chief product officer, HiveIO. “Other enhancements seen in 8.0 were a direct result of user feedback, as more and more of our customers are requesting business insights and automation. With 8.0, we can meet that market need.“

Cluster Adminstration
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Features of Hive Fabric 8.0 include:

• Data protection: In the event of a disaster, 8.0 provides customers with the ability to backup their storage locally or to a cloud provider platform, such as AWS or Azure. Integrating with cloud-based storage provides organizations with a new level of agility and time saved on data protection.

• Hive Sense Business Insight: Through increased visibility into the customer’s IT infrastructure, administrators can now analyze their application environment for license inefficiencies by monitoring how various applications are being used, without additional third-party products. For example, a customer can track how many licenses are actually being used for a specific application, leading to potential savings in overall licensing costs.

• User interface: The company analyzed how current users operated their Hive Fabric UI to launch an updated version in 8.0. To improve the end-user admin experience, operations have been simplified and real-time information and virtual desktop insights are now shown through the administrator’s dashboard. This update in visibility allows customers to spend more time on the work that matters to them and their audiences, tending to patients, educating students, and developing new solutions for their business.

Hyperconverged storage
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8.0 continues to build upon the AI-ready solution that enables organizations to deploy virtualization technology without unnecessary vendor complexity or the need for specialists.

“Moving our virtual server and desktop environment from VMware to Hive Fabric dramatically simplifies the administration for our IT team. The single web-based interface allows us to gain insight to how our users work and what applications they are running,” said Dave Gartside, IT director, Solihull College and University Centre. “We are especially excited to see the integration with cloud storage, which provides us with more agility and a cost-effective solution for Disaster Recovery.”

Hive Fabric enables users to deploy virtual desktops, virtual servers, and SDS in a single install, eliminating the need for a multi-vendor and multi-contract approach.

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