GreenBytes intros vIO 4.0 virtual storage solution for desktop virtualization

PROVIDENCE, USA: GreenBytes, Inc., a developer of full-featured desktop virtualization storage optimization software, today announced enhancements to its vIO virtual storage solution for desktop virtualization.

GreenBytes vIO 4.0 offers OEMs and service providers patented, high-performance virtual desktop deployment features, along with the flexibility required to cost effectively scale virtual desktop environments.

With GreenBytes' patented zero latency inline deduplication technology, OEMs are able to deliver cloud-scale, next-generation desktop virtualization solutions that enable full-featured persistent virtual desktops, providing end users with a superior virtual desktop experience that is similar to the physical desktop they are most familiar with, all with up to 98 percent less storage space required, said a press release.

The GreenBytes vIO 4.0 virtual storage solution enables OEMs to quickly enter into the growing VDI market by creating customizable packages of high quality, ultra-performant, full-featured desktop virtualization solutions that are simple, easy to deploy, and scale from departmental to cloud, increasing customer time-to-value.

Michael Richtberg, VP, product management, GreenBytes said: "GreenBytes plugs in a critical fuse for the successful fulfillment of the VDI user experience. Achieving the elusive combination of cost, performance and getting users what they want in the virtual ‘personal' computing era of cloud-based offerings is a long-awaited industry achievement that I am pleased to announce we have reached with our vIO 4.0 release."

The vIO 4.0 diverts OS and swap disk activity away from primary storage (SAN) to high-speed flash, solving the performance and latency problems and poor user experience that occur during peak usage. By moving the virtual desktop datastores to the vIO, inconsistent performance and crippling congestion become a thing of the past.

Deployed and ready to present storage locally or externally via iSCSI or NFS in less than five minutes, vIO-based OEM solutions can deliver persistent or non-persistent desktop images through their preferred desktop broker interface running on VMware hypervisors.

Some of the GreenBytes vIO 4.0 features and benefits include Optimized Deduplication Hashing Functions, Optimized Compression, VDI Block Size Optimization, LUN-Based QOS (Quality of Service), Improved SNMP Reporting and NFS VAAI (VMware vStorage API for Array Integration).