March 2013
PernixData – New Start-up Dramatically Improves Server Performance at the Data Layer without Expensive New Hardware
PernixData just came out of stealth mode and I had the pleasure of being introduced to them via a day at Lightspeed Ventures of Menlo Park, Ca with eight other CIOs (or senior staffers) from around the San Francisco Bay Area interacting with and providing feedback on 10 emerging tech start-ups backed by Lightspeed (see my post The Day at Lightspeed Ventures).
Market Positioning: dramatically improve server performance at the data layer without expensive new hardware.
Solution: PernixData software layer leverages pool of Flash memory across multiple servers providing an enterprise-class, high-speed, software-only data tier for application acceleration –
PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) is created by virtualizing server-side flash via a scale out architecture. Virtualized applications transparently leverage FVP for unprecedented performance while requiring no changes to either the application or the underlying storage infrastructure. Clustered hypervisor features such as live migrations and distributed resource management continue to operate seamlessly with FVP. By virtualizing flash in servers, PernixData is picking up where hypervisors left off after virtualizing CPU and memory.
Personally this was the most intriguing product of the day as it provides a hardware agnostic solution for speeding up data layer performance without having to buy expensive SAN replacements. Wow, what a pleasure to be pitched a solution that did not require a rip and replace!
Their product is still in Beta – click here for more info!
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