Gridstore takes Hybrid Cloud solutions on the road in the UK

Gridstore™ is participating in a six city Tour being organised by Virtual User Machine Group (VMUG), the independent cloud and virtualisation user group.

The Tour, which begins in Manchester on September 11th 2014, is aimed at anyone who is interested in discussions about the deployment of virtual infrastructure and associated technologies.

The organising committee comprises of volunteers, individuals directly employed to manage and design virtual infrastructure in their own organisations. It is proud of the fact that it is technology agnostic and the Tour itself is designed for like minded engineers and virtualisation experts to meet specialist vendors, such as Gridstore.
Andy Hill, EMEA stated: “This year we have seen software-defined storage going from being a nebulous buzzword to becoming a reality for many organisations and we’re glad to be in a position to offer the only purpose-built Microsoft storage solution to meet this demand in the UK. We at Gridstore see significant growth in Hyper-V business - in some markets Hyper-V has already taken over as market leader. This fact appears to have been bourn out by analyst house IDC, which has claimed that Hyper-V had grown to 31.5 per cent of the market and was continuing to grow.”

“The Gridstore solution is unique in the marketplace – focused on Microsoft, it delivers a scale out building block approach to storage, a true ‘elastic’ back end. Not only is it low cost, it is also very easy to deploy and manage delivering the functionality to meet most customer needs. We are seeing customers adding Hyper-V to their existing virtualisation infrastructure as well as some converting from VMware to Hyper-V to reduce cost. The consideration of software-defined storage allows storage resources to be defined, allocated and optimised on a VM by VM basis will ultimately get the best out of evolving landscape of virtualisation. That is why it was essential we took part in this Tour, to enable us to get in front of the very people more often than not tasked with this challenge.”

Gridstore is the only vendor offering storage specifically designed for Microsoft Windows Server and Hyper-V. Gridstore 3 has been designed from the ground up to accelerate applications in virtual environments. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all storage, Gridstore uses its patented Server-Side Virtual ControllerTM Technology (SVCT) to eliminate the I/O blender for each virtual machine and accelerate application I/O.

Designed to meet the storage virtualisation challenges faced by mid-sized enterprises, Gridstore 3 is available in both hybrid and capacity models, providing the perfect solution for optimising virtualised application performance.

Gridstore 3 delivers improved application performance and the industry’s first and only TrueQoS™ (True Quality of Service) in a pay-as-you-scale format. Both easy-to-use and manage, Gridstore solutions fit naturally into the Microsoft Windows architecture appearing like local hard drives to the operating system. It is the perfect storage solution for both performance in terms of hybrid caching, and also capacity storage challenges. Gridstore 3.0 has been met with overwhelming acceptance with 100 per cent of its beta customers converting to purchase with the vast majority experiencing even greater application acceleration than anticipated and dramatically improved ease-of-install and management.

The UK and Ireland tour comprises:
- 11th September - Manchester
- 18th September - Newcastle
- 16th October - Cardiff
- 21st October - Leeds
- 6th November - London
- 27th November - Dublin