SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to joins the 'let's get VMware' crowd

SoftIron's offering is called VM Squared and is based on the KVM hypervisor – a module for the Linux kernel. VM Squared is therefore essentially a Linux distro tailored to run as server virtualization infrastructure.it builds with an auditable bill of materials to satisfy clients with very particular security requirements that both hardware and firmware can be traced to their origin. Hypercloud can also run on commodity hardware, if required.

VM Squared does everything you'd expect of a server virtualization platform: it allows creation and management of VMs across a pool of hardware, allows service providers to create multitenant rigs, permits migration of VMs between hosts without disruption, and lets users manage it with an appliance designed to be mighty secure.

"If you are sitting on a vSphere estate today, you have very few places to go that are not transformative if you have external storage," he toldThe other is that Van der Schyff believes hardware buying cycles have fallen out of synch in many orgs. Lock-step upgrades of servers and storage were once the norm, he suggested, but are now less common.

SoftIron has only around 100 employees, and in recent years has added servers and a cloud platform to its range of software-defined storage boxes. VM Squared means it is now tending a pair of platforms and two hardware ranges – a lot for any org, never mind one of SoftIron’s modest size.

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