Infinite I/O

We are deep into what we call VMUG season here at Infinio!  With 10 VMware Users Group conferences under our belts since January, we wanted to share the top 10 questions we get the most at these shows.  

There is something special about Spring arriving in New England, where Infinio is headquartered: days start to get longer, the Red Sox fire up a new season, and lots of people are motivated to clean up yards and outdoor space as we dig out from winter.   

VMworld 2015 in San Francisco (August 30-September 2) is just around the corner and it is shaping up to be a great show. Make sure you keep a free spot in your schedule to visit our booth #2029 in the Moscone Center South Hall. Meet our team and learn about the latest enhancements to our storage acceleration solution for VMware, Infinio Accelerator. Join us for entertainment, presentations, product demos, great giveaways and more:

The 12^th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium has announced that Infinio was selected as one of ten finalists for the 2015 Innovation Showcase which starts at 5:30PM on May 20, 2015, at MIT’s Kresge in Cambridge, MA.

Infinio was chosen from a long list of applicants in a rigorous selection process based on its ability to deliver innovation and strategic value with a significant potential impact. We are listed among the showcase finalists as follows:

Infinio Systems provides software-based storage acceleration technology that enables organizations to improve data center performance while reducing costs, complexity and inefficiencies.

VMworld's Many Stages

Everywhere at VMworld 2014 is a stage. Between the keynotes and breakout sessions, there is one community-led group that is constantly producing video to teach us all about the technical world. The vBrownBag team did an incredible job, giving stage time to dozens of end users and vendors. The Infinio team were proud sponsors of that hard work. 

Two of us were up on stage to share technical content and have great videos to share:

We just started a webinar series with well-known vExpert, blogger, and speaker Eric Siebert which he titles “Top 7 Storage Performance Gotchas.”

In this first round, Eric broke down some fundamental facts that often get abstracted away as we discuss performance analysis. I want to review just one that really struck me and then answer a webinar audience question that came in too late to answer live.

Mark your calendars, we have two webinars next week about storage in virtualized data centers. The first covers a common customer question: How to realistically test storage performance. The second webinar, the first in a three-part series, looks at common storage gotchas (and how to avoid them).

• Testing server-side cache with real-world, enterprise-class workloads
  Tuesday,May 20, 1:00pm ET
  Presented by Vishal Misra and Sheryl Koenigsberg
  Register
  
  
• Top 7 Storage Performance Gotchas: Why architecture matters (part 1 of 3)
  Wednesday, May 21, 1:00pm ET
  Presented by Eric Siebert
  Register

If you can't make the live events, both webinars will be available on-demand afterward. More details after the jump.

We told you last week that Infinio Accelerator has been certified Citrix Ready. And, not-so-coincidentally, the Infinio away team attended our first Citrix Synergy show in Anaheim, California.

With over 5,000 attendees, Citrix Synergy is very busy. We had a great week at the show. The biggest highlight was getting to meet so many customers and partners, and introducing them to Infino. Of course, for us New Englanders tired of a long winter, the weather was a highlight too.

Here some more highlights from our Citrix Synergy debut:

The Infinio crew will be on the road again, visiting four VMware User Group events in the next few weeks!

The virtualization community turned out for the 2014 New england VTUG Winter Warmer. Infinio was there, were you? Check out our Storify coverage from Twitter.