Gridstore Joins Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 17 -- Gridstore, a leader in hyper-converged all flash infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center, today announced they have joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance. This new relationship reinforces Gridstore's commitment to provide innovative solutions purpose-built for the Microsoft data center environment.
"From the beginning, our HyperConverged Infrastructure has been designed to support, integrate, and use Microsoft's solutions," said Kelly Murphy, Founder and CTO, Gridstore, "Becoming an Enterprise Cloud Alliance Partner was a logical step as enterprises embrace the hybrid cloud, they can look to Microsoft and Gridstore to help them succeed. We deliver on the promise of an easy-to-deploy and manage, high-performance Private-Cloud-in-a-Box built on the Microsoft technology stack. Customers now have the ability to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively build their own private cloud infrastructures."
The goal of Microsoft's Enterprise Partner Cloud Alliance is to create, nurture and grow a strong partner eco-system across a broad set of Enterprise Cloud Products delivering the best on-premises, Private and Public Cloud solutions in the industry. The Alliance was formed to promote and support partners providing integrations and extensions to existing Microsoft products.
Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances (HCA) are purpose-built for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. The HCA brings together compute, SAN and storage into a single system that offers all-flash bare-metal performance, efficient scaling, and scale-to-fit design that eliminates costly compute sprawl. Customers achieve a 10X performance increase with 75% less infrastructure delivering 4X decrease in TCO. The Gridstore HyperConverged Appliance is an ideal platform for infrastructure refreshes and specific Windows workloads such as VDI, SQL Server, Dev/Test, and ROBO.
Gridstore's HyperConverged Infrastructure supports Windows Azure Pack, enabling deployment of Private-Cloud-in-a-Box easily and cost-effectively. Azure Pack provides a multi-tenant, self-service private cloud interface that works with Windows Server and System Center, to deliver self-service provisioning, easy movement of workloads to the cloud, and infrastructure management. Additionally, Gridstore's integration with System Center includes VMM for policy-based provisioning and orchestration of compute and storage resources at VM-level granularity. Building on this with v 3.5 of its HyperConverged Infrastructure, Gridstore has released OAuth for admin level authentication to enforce additional security, as well as support for WMI Counters for system-level monitoring, tracking, and reporting of key metrics such as IOPs and latency of each VM.
About Gridstore
Gridstore is a leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layer built on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers.
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Source: Gridstore
