Interesting storage startups

While VMware has captured a large market of server virtualization, it looks like there are some gaps in the io and storage virtualization areas. With more and more companies emerging in storage virtualization space, its time to see what are the innovations that can define future of storage.To have a glimpse of storage virtualization lets see some startups and their innovation.

StoreSimple:

StorSimple, develops solutions for  Hybrid Cloud Storage  for Windows and VMware infrastructure.

StorSimple offers has developed application-optimized hybrid cloud storage appliances to businesses and organizations that want to integrate the cloud securely and transparently into their existing on premises applications. The StorSimple 5010 and 7010 appliances have recently achieved VMware Ready™ status, passing rigorous VMware testing and interoperability criteria for use in production environments, and are now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog. 

See what StorSimple has to offer here.

Xsigo:

Xsigo is the technology leader in Data Center I/O virtualization, helping organizations reduce costs and improve business agility. Xsigo’s  I/O Director consolidates server connectivity with a solution that provides unprecedented management simplicity and interoperability with open standards.Xsigo was actively used in VMwares VMworld's  demos to support IO for thousands of workloads.Xsigo helps enterprises to scale its virtual infrastructure  dynamically.It also reduces maintenance cost by reducing the number of failure points.

Fusion-io:

Fusion-io has been in enterprise market for quite some time now.It mainly deals with flash based PCIe cards.  The enterprise server vendors like IBM,HP and Dell are already shipping fusion IO based servers.All the latest updates on Fusion-io products is available here.

Aprius:

Apris aims to maximize application performance and minimize infrastructure costs in a data center by addressing I/O bottlenecks at the server and the storage array. The company offers a simple approach to provisioning and managing I/O resources by enabling the PCI Express protocol to traverse over the Ethernet data center fabric.You can find more information here.

IO Turbine:

VDI workloads are still a bottleneck in Desktop user experience.People see lots of performance degradation with desktop boot-storms.IO-Turbine main focus is to build innovation around VDI to reduce IO bottlenecks and application latency.

TINTRI:
A company that offers storage solutions for storing VMs.It is a VM centric storage appliance built for VMware.It also has inline de-dupe and compression.It actively uses SSDs for performance boost.

More info about Tintri.