VMware launched a new release of its Virtual SAN platform as it rounds out its software-defined stack for private and public cloud infrastructure.
The VMware Virtual SAN is the company’s software defined storage play and is primarily aimed at Nutanix. The company said that it has more than 3,000 hyper-converged infrastructure customers since VMware Virtual SAN launched 21 months ago. VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 will be available in the first quarter with a starting price of $2,495 per CPU. Software defined storage is shifting the landscape for vendors. More storage is being consumed, but the traditional system vendors in the market are seeing slowing growth. The cloud is partly to blame, but there’s also the hardware end of the equation.
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