Gridstore Study Reveals That Application Performance Improvement Is the Top Priority for the Majority of Virtualized Enterprise

Online, July 25, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Gridstore™, the leader in optimized storage for Windows Servers and Hyper-V that accelerates application I/O up to 500%, today announced findings from a recent study on the top priorities surrounding mid-market enterprises' virtual infrastructure requirements. The industry survey revealed that improving application performance (51%) was the top business priority for virtualized environments, followed by the need to reduce I/O bottlenecks between virtual machines and storage (34%), the need for increased virtual machine density (34%), the need to decrease storage costs (27%), and the need for improved manageability for virtualized systems (24%).

Analyst research concurs. "With the increasing demands on IT, users have less tolerance for poor application performance," said Mike Leone, ESG Lab Engineer, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "Many organizations resist moving tier-1 applications to virtual servers for fear that workload aggregation will slow performance. As a poor attempt to combat the problem, organizations add more hardware and software to the IT infrastructure, but with that comes higher costs and increased complexity. ESG research on virtualization revealed that after budget concerns and lack of legacy application support, performance issues were the key concern preventing organizations from expanding their virtualization deployments."

Respondents in the Gridstore survey demonstrated agreement that storage resources have a direct correlation to the application performance and, as a result, ROI derived from virtualization projects. When asked about the top five factors they consider when choosing storage systems for virtualization projects, some of the highest priority responses included the ability for storage to scale performance as needed (47%), the ability for storage to scale capacity as needed (47%), and the ability for storage to scale I/O as needed (37%).

Despite the performance challenges of virtualization, however, 18% of respondents reported that they have plans to support additional hypervisors in the next 12 months. The hypervisors of choice for new planned support were VMware vSphere5 (52%), Microsoft Hyper-V (38%) and Citrix Xen (18%).

"We continue to hear that poor application performance, I/O bottlenecks and VM density challenges are impacting the return on investment mid-market enterprises anticipated from their virtual infrastructure investments," said Kelly Murphy, founder and CSO, Gridstore. "End users are complaining performance is bad, management is complaining they are not getting the promised ROI and IT is caught in the middle chasing phantom performance problems. IT can either over provision hardware to boost performance, or sacrifice ROI with lower server consolidation. This is a painful position to be in."

Gridstore was designed from the ground up to accelerate applications in virtual environments. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all storage, Gridstore uses patented Server-Side Virtual ControllerTM Technology (SVCT ) to accelerate application I/O in three ways. Custom-fit storage accelerators eliminate the I/O blender in virtual environments that causes poor performance and accelerates performance for every application in the virtual environment. TrueQoS™ guarantees the performance of the most important applications and GridScale™ delivers massively parallel performance that scales without performance loss.

The Gridstore survey included responses from 353 organizations representing multiple industry categories particularly in the areas of technology (14%), healthcare (13%), education (11%), government (8%), and finance (6%). The majority of responding companies had over 1,000 employees (93%) and more than 100 servers (59%). For more information on the survey results, please visit: http://www.gridstore.com/resources/landing/2013-virtualization-survey/?utm_

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Gridstore™ is the leader in optimized storage for Windows Servers and Hyper-V that accelerates application I/O up to 500%. All traditional storage suffers from the I/O Blender that severely impacts application performance in virtual environments. Gridstore uses patented Server-Side Virtual ControllerTM Technology (SVCT) to eliminate the I/O blender and accelerate applications with self-optimizing storage accelerators. Gridstore also offers the industry's first end-to-end storage Quality of Service (TrueQoS™) that guarantees performance for your most important applications. Gridstore is a simple, Pay-as-you-Scale building block approach to storage that grows more powerful with massively parallel performance. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, please visit: http://www.gridstore.com

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