StoreVault, a NetApp division, announced that its StoreVault S500 has been certified to work with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). By combining StoreVault with VI3, SMBs are provided with infrastructure virtualization strategies that better manage their storage and server resources. The StoreVault S500 will attempt to help customers realize the benefits of combining storage with infrastructure virtualization. When StoreVault, a NetApp division, announced that its StoreVault S500 has been certified to work with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). By combining StoreVault with VI3, SMBs are provided with infrastructure virtualization strategies that better manage their storage and server resources.The StoreVault S500 will attempt to help customers realize the benefits of combining storage with infrastructure virtualization. When the StoreVault S500 is deployed in VMware environments, it can simplify storage management concerns such as resources, data backup and recovery, and capacity provisioning. According to StoreVault, data growth challenges are creating tremendous headaches in data loss, backup, and recovery for SMBs. Part of the problem is that many SMB IT environments consist of many servers with direct-attached storage (DAS). As a result, there is an increasing interest among SMBs to realize the same benefits that enterprise data centers have but on a smaller scale. Severing the physical dependencies between servers and storage achieves measurably better returns on both server and storage resources. “Virtualization is useful to businesses of all sizes, not just Fortune 500 companies,” said Brian Byun, vice president of Global Partners and Solutions at VMware. “SMB IT managers face many of the same pressures as data center operators when solving storage and server management issues while having fewer resources to address the problems. Certifying StoreVault with VMware provides a great value proposition to meet the budgetary and reliability needs of smaller firms.”“We’re seeing an interesting trend among SMBs that are looking for smarter, more reliable alternatives to the traditional way of handling storage – and iSCSI SAN and infrastructure virtualization are getting a lot of attention,” said Sajai Krishnan, general manager of StoreVault. “Our strategic relationship with VMware is designed to bring added value to IT generalists within SMBs that are tasked with taming storage and infrastructure management with a limited budget.” Software Development