Infinite I/O

This week we're releasing a three-part video series about content-based caching. Vishal Misra, our CTO and founder, explains his research into queuing systems, content-based caching, and how they helped shape the development of Infinio Accelerator. He also presents some real-world results based on customer deployments.

Our last survey on hybrid cloud strategies told us that the vast majority of companies will be keeping on-premise infrastructure to varying degrees. So, this time we wanted to find out how they see scope changing, what technology people are planning to use, and how they plan to monitor and manage performance for remaining on-premise workloads.

In February of 2019 we surveyed over 1,400 IT practitioners via email and have compiled the results to share. 

I spend most of my weeks talking to VMware customers about applications that they want to perform better. It’s probably not a surprise that the majority of these conversations revolve around databases: ERP, CRM, EMR, BI, and an assortment of other fun acronyms. What’s interesting is that even the organizations who are already using high-end hardware -- including all-flash arrays -- wonder where they can find the “next big thing” to aid them in IT’s ongoing saga to deliver greater business value and help their users be more productive.

A couple of weeks ago, our Senior Systems Engineer, Jonathan Klick, presented a webinar entitled "An Architect's Guide to Server Flash."

At Infinio, we wanted to get a sense of how IT shops were thinking about and using the public cloud as an extension of their on-premises virtualization environments. To that end, we surveyed 1,327 IT practitioners via email during July 2018 and have compiled the results to share.

One of the fundamental truths about storage performance is that there is a predictable curve that relates IOPS to latency. At first, latency rises gently, sometimes even imperceptibly, as IOPS rise. At some inflection point, this changes, and suddenly every incremental unit of IOPS that a system takes on results in an exponential increase in latency.

As I talk to customers and prospects, I get asked a lot of questions not just about our product, but also about the industry. The question I've been asked most often lately is blunt: "Are price drops in SSDs friend or foe for companies like yours?"

We're excited to announce the general availability of Infinio Accelerator version 3.4 today! <Humble brag> With this release, we're the first caching vendor with VMware Ready certification on vSphere 6.7 for VMFS, NFS, vSAN, and VVols. </Humble brag>

We're a caching company, so it will probably come as no surprise that we think the flash in your servers (SSDs, PCIe cards, NVMe devices, and flash cards) are best deployed as a cache, rather than exposed as a raw storage device.