NJ Data Reccovery Info - VDI-IOmark: first industry storage benchmark for virtual desktop infrastructure

Evaluator Group Inc. announces the first industry storage benchmark for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the VDI-IOmark. Over the past year Evaluator Group has helped IT organizations develop requirements for full scale out VDI environments. Part of every project has been a Proof of Concept (POC) to resolve expected IO performance and related storage costs.
According to Russ Fellows, Senior Analyst and Principal Developer of the VDI-IOmark at Evaluator Group, “The VDI-IOmark will be used both by IT organizations and vendors. By getting input from multiple partners, the benchmark is designed to deliver a vendor agnostic comparison”.
Evaluator Group, in cooperation with available testing tools found current VDI benchmarks measure CPU, memory and I/O capabilities but do not stress the storage characteristics of the infrastructure.
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