Astute Networks is the leading provider of performance storage appliances for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environm ... ents that increase performance, enhance user productivity, and lower IT costs. We eliminate existing - and prevent future - I/O bottlenecks from impacting business-critical application performance, with an affordable and easy-to-deploy appliance platform. The company’s ViSX family of Networked Flash™ appliances is based in part on a 100% solid state Flash technology from Samsung that cost-effectively delivers a high number of sustained IOPS to dramatically increase application performance. That technology is powered by Astute's patented DataPump Engine™ in each ViSX appliance. ViSX overcomes performance limitations by non-disruptively delivering shared performance to all servers and virtual machines over pervasively deployed Ethernet networks. It also provides IT managers with a simple to deploy, optimized performance storage appliance that boosts application and virtual desktop (VDI) performance by up to 10X, supporting NFS & iSCSI environments. And we are able to return existing capacity back for general storage needs, reducing our customer's need for new storage acquisitions dramatically. We even support cloud deployments, with full OpenStack compliance. Astute's customers aren't alone in recognizing the value of ViSX and the company's solutions. In the past year, Astute has won a wide range of industry awards and been posted to numerous top product listings. These include being named a 2013 Red Herring Global 100 Winner, a CRN 2013 Emerging Vendor, the recipient of a Best in Biz 2013 Award, & named one of the Coolest Flash Storage Products of 2013. We've also been added to the Top 50 MidMarket Solution Vendors list, as a CRN 5 Star Channel Program Winner, and to Storage Magazine's annual list of Storage Products of the Year. read more