VESK present at Open Storage summit in Amsterdam

THIS EVENT HAS NOW PASSED
VESK presented in Amsterdam talking on Open Storage with VDI. Thanks to the success of the presentation, the organisers have asked VESK to present at the Worldwide Open Storage Summit in SanFrancisco.

“I feel very honoured to be asked to present at the Open Storage Summit in Amsterdam. I am glad people notice the hard work we put into our storage infrastructure and that it's a first in the industry..." said James Mackie, VESK's Technical Director.

Please click here to see a summary of the event: http://nexenta.com/corp/component/content/article/926

VESK's virtual desktops run particularly fast thanks to the type of storage the virtual desktops operate on.

Since the introduction of virtualisation, many businesses have tried to squeeze as much as they can from their servers by fitting hundreds and hundreds of virtual macines or desktops onto a physical server. Even though virtualisation is around 10 times more efficient than traditional computing, most businesses noticed the impact of increased 'resource squeezing', a term used to describe the over exertion put on physical server resources.

Around 2008, leading technology enthusiasts noticed that it wasn't the resources used on the servers, but more the resources required on the storage because not only does storage 'store' data, it also processes it for the first time before any data transactions hit the storage device. When we discovered this after reaching a certain number of end users, we invested in a state of the art storage platform that not only meant we could scale to any number of users but more impressively, the more users we add, the faster our storage becomes thanks to the way we add storage devices to our storage cluster.

We built our own storage platform from the ground up and all of the expertiese is in-house. To our knowledge, only one other company (not a competitor) has the high level of performance from a storage platform that we do. Every time you run anything through your desktop, it is running through SSD’s (Solid State Drives) that can hit around 90,000 IOPS compared to a conventiaonal SAS disk drive in a commercial storage unit which can only hit about 80 IOPS.

Our storage platform is 128-bit. Our 128-bit file system can address 1.84 × 1019 times more data than 64-bit systems such as NTFS. 64 bit operating systems are the fastest systems currently available to home and business users. The limitations of 128-bit are designed to be so large that they would never be encountered. This was assured by surpassing physical rather than theoretical limitations—there simply is not enough useable matter on the planet Earth to support a maximized 128-bit filesystem.