The excitement at VMWorld about DataGravity (VMWorld 2014 Best New Technology and Best In Show) has not worn off for many, while others may not yet be aware of the product. DataGravity is revolutionizing storage and data management by combining primary storage, data protection, governance, and search and discovery into an integrated appliance. The following are some of the benefits DataGravity provides:
- Unlock the value of virtualized data
- Search and discover the data within your virtual machine
- Track real-time file level user activity
- Content Identification and user access auditing
- Instant protection and recovery without a backup window
- Improve VMware operations
Rather than purchasing multiple tools or spending the time setting up each virtual server to perform its own searching and discovery, moving this effort to the storage layer provides a way to centralize these efforts. Tasks such as deduplication, searching, and auditing particularly benefit from centralization, so why perform them on each virtual server? Read the Virtualization Solution Brief.pdf for more information.
Paul Comfort
Senior Systems Engineer
Chi Corporation
@PCComf
