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Astute Sees Strong Momentum as Demand for Flash Storage for Virtual and Physical Environments Escalates
SAN DIEGO, CA, Jan 15, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Astute Networks(TM), Inc., the leading provider of performance
storage appliances, today announced strong growth in 2012 as demand
for its ViSX family of networked flash solutions for virtual and
physical environments escalates. Astute has pioneered a
network-attached flash appliance technology to overcome the
application performance limitations common in demanding virtual and
physical environments.
The impact of flash storage was significant in 2012, but it will
explode in 2013. According to IDC the solid state storage market is
expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 51.5% and will
continue to grow to $5.8 billion by 2015. Astute is capitalizing on
this burgeoning market opportunity to help enterprises easily
overcome the performance barriers plaguing their I/O-intensive
application environments.
Applications such as virtualized databases and VDI have demanding I/O
performance characteristics that legacy storage architectures were
never designed to support. The Astute ViSX performance storage
appliance was purpose-built to address I/O-intensive applications.
ViSX incorporates the patented DataPump Engine(TM) processor that
completely offloads and dramatically accelerates network and storage
protocol processing. The combination of a network-optimized flash and
an advanced protocol processor eliminates all critical I/O
bottlenecks that affect application and VDI performance and delivers
unprecedented random IOPS performance and IOPS per dollar.
The Evaluator Group validated Astute Networks, as delivering the
industry's best VDI performance at the lowest cost in its industry
benchmark report. As a result, the Evaluator Group concluded that
Astute's ViSX Flash-based storage appliance offered:
-- The industry's lowest cost storage device on a per VDI user basis
-- The highest number of VDI users for any iSCSI connected storage device
-- The Industry's highest IOPS for any iSCSI connected storage device
Key Astute milestones in 2012 include the following:
-- Close of $12 million in Series B financing, led by Samsung Venture
Investment Corporation (SVIC), the investment arm of Samsung Group,
the world's leading provider of NAND Flash memory
-- Unveiled ViSX G4 performance storage appliance featuring Astute's 100
percent Networked Flash(TM) architecture and game-changing, patented
DataPump Engine(TM). ViSX G4 eliminates the barriers to virtualizing
Tier 1 business-critical applications, broadly deploying VDI, and
increasing VM density. ViSX G4 can increase application performance by
up to 10X in a matter of minutes.
-- Appointed former HP and LeftHand sales veteran Steve Kucker as vice
president of sales, former Virtual Instruments marketing executive Len
Rosenthal as senior vice president of marketing, and former EMC
financial executive Brooke Beers as CFO
-- Launched AstuteNET partner program to enhance growth and profit for
distributors, resellers, system integrators, and service providers
selling Astute's ViSX performance storage appliances.
-- Storage Magazine named Astute Networks a 2012 Product of the Year
finalist in the Enterprise Storage System category
-- CRN Magazine selected Astute Networks among the top "10 Hot Tech
Startups for June 2012" and one of "The 10 Coolest Startups of 2012"
"From day one we designed a networked flash solution that eliminates
performance barriers impacting virtual and physical applications
today and tomorrow," said Len Rosenthal, senior vice president of
marketing, Astute Networks. "As the virtualization market continues
to explode, so does the need for scalable, reliable, low cost solid
state storage that can deliver the performance improvements that help
organizations realize the true potential of their virtual
infrastructure investments. We are perfectly positioned to capitalize
on this dramatic market opportunity wave with one of the most
game-changing solutions in the industry."
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About Astute Networks
Astute is the leading provider of performance
storage appliances for physical and virtual environments that
increase performance, enhance user productivity, and lower IT costs.
The company's ViSX family of Networked Flash appliances is based on a
100% solid state Flash technology that cost-effectively delivers a
high number of sustained IOPS to dramatically increase application
performance. Powered by its patented DataPump Engine(TM), ViSX
overcomes performance limitations by non-disruptively delivering
shared performance to all servers and virtual machines over
pervasively deployed Ethernet networks. ViSX is available through the
company's network of authorized AstuteNet channel partners. For more
information, visit www.astutenetworks.com.
Astute Networks, Networked flash, ViSX G4, DataPump Engine, and
FlashWRX are trademarks or registered trademarks of Astute Networks,
Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Media Contact
Sabrina Sanchez
The Ventana Group for Astute
ssanchez@theventanagroup.com
(925) 785-3014
SOURCE: Astute Networks
mailto:ssanchez@theventanagroup.com
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