WhipTail, maker of high-performance, cost-effective NAND
flash
silicon storage arrays, today announced that its XLR8r has
achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that
WhipTail’s XLR8r has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process
managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Solution Exchange
(VSX).
Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that
WhipTail’s XLR8r makes best use of VMware technology and is ready for
deployment in customer environments.
“We are pleased that WhipTail XLR8r qualifies for the VMware Ready™
logo, signifying to customers that it has passed specific VMware testing
and interoperability criteria and is ready to run in production
environments,” said Sheryl Sage, Director, Alliance Programs, VMware.
“By using WhipTail’s enterprise class NAND flash silicon storage array
with VMware vSphere®, customers can successfully move to highly
productive virtualized environments where demand for large amounts of
WRITE IO are a must,” said Dan Crain, CEO at WhipTail. “Our storage
solution is specifically designed for low latency and high IO
environments where performance, price and scalability are top
priorities.”
The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified
partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance
Partner (TAP) program. With more than 2,000 members worldwide, the
VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to
provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing
services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to
joint customers.
WhipTail’s XLR8r can be found within the online VMware Solutions
Exchange at https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/7136.
About WhipTail
WhipTail commercialized the first NAND Flash Silicon Storage Array (SSA)
which dramatically improves application performance while consuming less
energy than legacy storage arrays. Installed worldwide, WhipTail’s SSAs
enable databases, virtualized and online environments to process more
data in significantly less time. WhipTail's customers experience
substantial operational improvements because data processing time
shrinks from days to hours or hours to minutes. Move your data at the
speed of life at www.whiptail.com.
WhipTail, XLR8r, VMware and VMware Ready are registered trademarks
and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other
jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not
imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other
company.
