MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - May 04, 2015) - Gridstore®, the leader in hyper-converged all flash infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center today announced the release of version 3.5 of the Gridstore HyperConverged Infrastructure. Enhancing Gridstore's unique and patented method to deliver Quality of Service (QoS) on a per-VM basis, as well as new functionality in System Center integration,v3.5 now can be deployed as a Private-Cloud-in-a-Box with support for Azure Pack.

"HyperConverged systems have taken off in the market," said Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Gridstore is the only player in the market offering an all-flash version built exclusively for Microsoft Hyper-V, and the delivery of private cloud enablement adds significant value to their offering."

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In v3.5, the new fine grain I/O control extends the ability to define QoS on a policy basis (Platinum, Gold or Bronze) and allows customers to designate specific minimum or maximum amounts of IOPS for each VM or workload, providing finer tuning for precise predictable and manageable performance. This Precision I/O Control can be managed through Gridstore's GridControl UI, or through System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

"At Interact for Health we are really excited at being at the forefront of technology with our Gridstore HyperConverged solution," said Cliff Hastings, Interact for Health's Director of IT. "Working with Gridstore has been great and the HyperConverged Appliance is a winner for our organization."

Gridstore's integration with System Center today includes VMM for policy-based provisioning and orchestration of storage resources at VM-level granularity. Building on this with v3.5, Gridstore has released OAuth for admin level authentication to enforce additional security, as well as support for WMI Counters for system-level monitoring, tracking, and reporting of key metrics such as IOPs and latency of each VM.

With HyperConverged Infrastructure v3.5 Gridstore is now supporting Azure Pack, enabling deployment of Private-Cloud-in-a-Box easily and cost-effectively. Windows Azure Pack provides a multi-tenant, self-service private cloud interface that works with Windows Server and System Center, to deliver self-service provisioning, easy movement of workloads to the cloud, and infrastructure management.

"The delivery of v3.5 is a milestone for us," said Kelly Murphy, Founder and CTO, Gridstore. "It allows us to deliver on the promise of an easy to deploy and manage, high performance Private-Cloud-in-a-Box built on the Microsoft technology stack. Customers now have the ability to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively build their own private cloud infrastructures."

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Gridstore HyperConverged Appliances v3.5 are available now.

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Gridstore™ is the leader in HyperConverged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center. Our customers gain a 10X performance improvement over traditional storage as we put all-flash as close to the workload as possible. They realize 4X lower TCO by consolidation of three layers of infrastructure into one scalable layer built on X86 hardware and 10X less management effort due to less management points and less infrastructure to manage. Gridstore's HyperConverged Appliances include both compute and storage in a single system, and provide external storage and work with any Windows servers and the HyperConverged Appliance, all driven by Gridstore's patented software. Gridstore software architecture delivers native Windows integration, per-VM I/O control, and elastic and independent scaling of resources. Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of value-added resellers.

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