VMblog’s Expert Interviews: Infinio Talks About Accelerator 3.0

Yesterday, Infinio announced the General Availability of version 3.0 of Infinio Accelerator, which helps to bring unprecedented storage performance to VMware environments.  VMblog followers and VMware community members may already be quite familiar with Infinio, but from what I’ve already witnessed in a recent briefing, this 3.0 release is set to further Infinio’s reputation for delivering high performance storage acceleration for VMware environments.  I was amazed at the raw performance improvements coming out of this release.  VMware datacenters will be quite pleased. 

The solution is certified as VMware Ready and operates with VMware Storage Policy-Based Management.  And Accelerator 3.0 will serve the needs of organizations looking to deliver never before seen storage performance for next-generation applications supporting financial, healthcare, and scientific industries; as well as help IT departments with more traditional needs of back-office databases, enterprise applications, and virtual desktops dramatically reduce storage costs.

After the announcement, I reached out to Sheryl Koenigsberg, head of marketing at Infinio, to find out more.

VMblog:  Can you explain about what’s new with Infinio’s 3.0 release?

• First of all, there’s the performance. We’re seeing 1,000,000 and 20GB/sec throughput – and that’s per host. Latency is below 100 μs.

• This performance boost comes in part from our developing on VAIO – VMware’s vSphere APIs for IO Filters. That also enabled us to easily support nearly any storage type for VMware: SAN, NAS, or DAS; supporting NFS, VMFS, VSAN and VVOLs.

• We added VM-level acceleration so architects can focus the fastest storage resources on the right applications

• Finally, we extended our memory-centric design to include the option to add SSDs and Flash devices.

What I think is cool is that we did all of this without sacrificing the simplicity that has been a hallmark of our product from the first version.  There are still no reboots or disruptions to install Infinio, and no changes need to be made to storage or to VMware.  All snapshots, reporting, and backup continue to work the same as they always have.