The Storage and Availability solutions team is excited to announce that vSAN 6.2 was named the overall winner in the Software-Defined Technology category for the CRN 2016 Products of the Year Awards! We are extremely humbled by this recognition and couldn’t be more proud of the team.
CRN’s annual Products of the Year Awards are given to standout products and services that represent best-in-breed technological innovation backed by a supportive channel partner program. For the first time, CRN did the judging a little differently. CRN editors selected five finalists among 17 technology categories and then asked solution providers to rate the products to determine a winner based on the subcategories of Technology, Revenue and Profit, and Customer Demand. The finalists and winners were originally selected from a survey that netted more than 5,000 responses. This captured real-world satisfaction among customers and partners.
About vSAN
vSAN 6.2 introduced key space efficiency features like deduplication, compression and erasure coding including Quality of Service (QoS) and Software Checksum. With vSAN’s fast pace of innovation, the storage and Availability Solutions team introduced vSAN 6.5 which GA’d on November 15, 2016 and introduced features like: 2-node direct connect which could save customers up to 20% per ROBO site, full-featured PowerCLI for scalability and ease of enterprise-class automation and support for next-gen hardware including large capacity drives with 512e support.
This rapid innovation, has led to rapid adoption of vSAN. We’re adding ~100 customers per week and this positive recognition is consistent with the customer feedback we’ve been getting from customers who have adopted vSAN 6.2. Yellow Pages Canada is one such customer who adopted vSAN all-flash to power their front end apps, search engines, BI and SQL databases and to support their mixed workload environments. Learn more about Yellow Pages Canada here:
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