Infortrend RAID Solutions Compatible With Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Networked storage expert Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced that its EonStor RAID storage solutions are now compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the latest hypervisor-based server virtualization that is integrated into Windows Server 2008 features. After comprehensive testing and verification, this compatibility has shown that Infortrend’s customers can maintain and manage their IT assets by making the best use of their existing storage; by improving resource utilization and administrator productivity; and by building a flexible, scalable virtualized network environment.  

Infortrend’s industry-leading, cost-effective, high-performance EonStor RAID array storage solutions have been widely embraced worldwide by many industries. Thanks to widespread plans for optimum virtualization and consolidation, along with the rapid growth of business-critical data access demand, a mission of Infortrend is to support the adoption of virtualization services. Additional benefits of this virtualization include higher utilization of storage assets, cost savings for the end user as well as a flexible and efficient IT environment.

By combining Infortrend Eonstor RAID subsystems with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, users can easily consolidate the physical infrastructure in order to make a virtualization network that is more efficient in capacity and management. This can lead to an increase on expected ROI on existing and future IT spending.

"As a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, we have a very close relationship, and are guaranteed timely technical support and the latest information on Microsoft technologies, initiatives, programs and more," said Danny Chang, senior director of global marketing at Infortrend Technology Inc. "We are now seriously engaged in the virtualization business, so we not only have a close alliance and partnership with leading virtualization companies in the market, but we also have solid plans for storage virtualization services. These include the virtual storage pool, thin provisioning and load balancing to solve the challenge of burdensome storage expansion, as well as low storage utilization and increased storage management complexity. These new RAID virtualization functions will be publicly announced early next year."