Johannesburg, 08 Apr 2016
With a surging number of Global 2000 customers, SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure revolutionising enterprise IT, revealed new software enhancements, offerings, and tools to deliver greater productivity, higher availability, and risk mitigation for large and mid-size enterprises.
OmniStack 3.5, the next iteration of the transformational technology behind SimpliVity's hyperconverged solutions, and OmniView, a Web-based support dashboard with predictive analytics, are fine-tuned to meet the requirements of enterprises with stringent SLAs, optimised IT service delivery, and larger, metro-area deployments. In addition, OmniStack for Hyper-V, an offering supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2016, gives enterprises, particularly those with mixed hypervisor environments, more deployment and management options so they can choose the best solution for their IT infrastructure.
"SimpliVity's foundational OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform was initially launched after 43 months in development, two to three times longer than other converged IT vendors. This investment allowed us to become the only hyperconverged vendor to assimilate all IT infrastructure below the hypervisor," said Jesse St Laurent, vice-president of product strategy, SimpliVity. "Now we've broadened our portfolio with OmniStack for Hyper-V, in addition to increasing productivity with sophisticated automation and predictive analysis, and delivering greater availability and risk mitigation through expanded multi-site deployment options."
OmniStack 3.5's intelligence, automation capabilities increases enterprise productivity
Optimised for large, mission-critical, global enterprise deployments, OmniStack 3.5 is the latest version of SimpliVity's transformational software technology behind its hyperconverged infrastructure. Key capabilities include:
* The Intelligent Workload Optimizer for first-class performance - OmniStack 3.5 ensures predictable application performance with the new Intelligent Workload Optimizer. By integrating intelligence about storage performance and data locations with vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler, OmniStack 3.5 can smartly migrate VMs to dynamically balance workloads.
* REST API for third party and custom app integration - SimpliVity's new REST API accelerates the development and integration of third-party solutions and custom applications, utilising intuitive standards and integrated development environments for rapid prototyping.
* Expanded support for multi-node stretched clusters - OmniStack 3.5's increased enablement for multi-node stretched clusters mitigates risk, and improves IT availability and resilience by deploying infrastructure across large campus data centers that span multiple sites.
OmniView increases enterprise productivity through predictive insights, automated analysis
SimpliVity's new Web-based tool, OmniView, provides predictive analytics and trend analysis to customers with mission-critical support plans, delivering actionable intelligence for optimising performance and resource utilisation, and effectively managing future growth. Features include:
* Customised dashboards for monitoring all worldwide deployments, top to bottom, and rapidly diagnosing performance or latency issues;
* Predictive analytics that enable administrators to easily visualise organic growth and anticipate future capacity requirements; and
* Convenient, secure Web access with centralised data analysis and storage in SimpliVity's support cloud.
OmniStack for Hyper-V provides more hypervisor options
Hyper-V is quickly increasing its market penetration and becoming an alternate hypervisor for many businesses, especially those maintaining multi-hypervisor environments. SimpliVity has extended the OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform to support Hyper-V environments within Microsoft Windows Server 2016 to offer more choice and flexibility to these large enterprises.
OmniStack for Hyper-V delivers all the same benefits of SimpliVity's hyperconverged infrastructure, including accelerated data efficiency, global unified management, and built-in data protection for Hyper-V-based virtual machines running on SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure.
Availability
OmniStack 3.5 and OmniView will be generally available on April 18 and timing and availability of OmniStack for Hyper-V is aligned to the planned release of Microsoft Windows Server 2016.
Quotes
* "Users are looking for ways to simplify IT, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions like SimpliVity are helping users significantly improve operational efficiencies. SimpliVity's new product enhancements, including the support of OmniStack with Hyper-V inside Microsoft Windows 2016 and a new Web-based predictive analytics tool, will provide more flexibility, customisation, and intelligence and help accelerate the workloads and use cases that can be moved from legacy to modern IT architectures," said Stu Miniman, Wikibon senior analyst.
* "Before we implemented Simplivity hyperconverged infrastructure, we were bogged down by the technicalities of a traditional data centre infrastructure. We did not have the resources to hire personnel with all the skills required to run a traditional data centre, so we had to get supplementary vendor support, in addition to what we already had with our data centre equipment manufacturers.
"Once we deployed Simplivity hyperconverged infrastructure, we didn't need the supplementary support. Simplivity hyperconverged infrastructure simplified our data centre by removing all the complexities, which has helped us to refocus our resources and add more value to our organisation," said Nabot Uushona, Director - Computer Centre, University of Namibia.
Resources:
* Blog on OmniStack 3.5, OmniView, and OmniStack for Hyper-V
* Learn more at SimpliVity's blog
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