An Affair To Remember
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2012 in Technology 0 comments
It’s Tuesday, February 14, Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air. When you think about the “great couples of the ages” – Marc Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Bogie and Bacall, etc – would you ever place your relationship with your hypervisor in that group? Besides being an economic stimulus package for florists, Valentine’s Day does give us the opportunity at least once a year to think more deeply about our relationships.
Maybe you don’t think you have a “relationship” with your hypervisor. But think about this – you probably spend at least 4 hours a day, and maybe as many as 12, working closely with it, some days you curse it, and some days you thank your lucky stars for it, sometimes even after a full day you still contact it from afar (remote login) because 12 hours just wasn’t enough, and you probably can’t go on vacation without staying in touch with it. You’ve may even have had to leave a romantic dinner or two with a real person just to touch base with it when it got out of sorts. Like it or not, you two have a relationship.
Well, today is a day to reflect on the good in that relationship. Your hypervisor has probably made your administrative life a lot easier, letting you manage a lot of tasks centrally that you used to have to travel to address. You can be much more responsive to the needs of the business, something which bodes well for your relationship with your boss. But in administration just as in life, there is no free lunch. And the cost of the joy your hypervisor brings you has often been paid in storage dollars.
Real relationships require a whole host of ancillary services that help you keep that spark alive with your significant other – Hallmark, FTD, Godiva, high end restaurants, Victoria’s Secret, monster truck shows (hey, that’s why there’s vanilla AND chocolate!), cruises, etc. – and now, there’s one to help keep you and your hypervisor on the road to eternal bliss: Virsto.
What could be more romantic than giving you up to 10x more performance out of your existing storage without buying any extra hardware? Provisioning high performance storage in seconds? You like thin? We’ll give you thin provisioning AND high performance for your storage. We package everything up into a storage object that looks exactly like your native hypervisor’s virtual disk, so it fits right into those familiar and comfortable management routines you already share with your hypervisor but gives you new capabilities to help keep your relationship fresh. And we’ll give you all this using your existing storage, whatever it is. This is a romantic interlude you can share with your favorite hypervisor (or two, since we support BOTH vSphere and Hyper-V) without breaking the bank. It’s the magic of pure software, and it puts the Shane company’s options to shame.
Virsto will address your storage performance issues, regardless of whether you’ve got a virtual server or a virtual desktop infrastructure environment, and we’ll lower the cost to keep your relationship going – you’ll need a lot less storage to meet your performance requirements. It’s like buying a single rose but getting the full blown dozen long stems, baby’s breath and all.
OK, so maybe adding Virsto to your virtual environment won’t inspire you to write the sequel to Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, but it will help you to work through that nagging hypervisor relationship issue so many of us experience – “but honey, your storage is just so darn EXPENSIVE!” – without having to bring in a counselor. And who knows, it may get you to see Khayyam’s most famous quatrain in a new light (with appropriate nods to Fitzgerald):
“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness –
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!”
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