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Astute Networks announced that its Networked Performance Flash has been chosen by the Flash Memory Summit as a Best of Show award winner for 2011 in the category of Most Innovative Flash Customer Implementation. The annual Best of Show awards is the premier opportunity for industry recognition of innovative products and solutions, and how they are being used in the marketplace.

Astute Networks’ winning customer Visioneer is a leader in intelligent document imaging solutions. After deploying Astute Networks technology, Visioneer achieved a 1,500% better read performance on critical applications with no impact on its existing infrastructure, accelerated performance on their most demanding VMs and witnessed a noticeable increase in the responsiveness of their database applications.

“We are very proud to be the recipient for this prestigious award which recognizes the success Visioneer has achieved by deploying the innovation of Astute’s Networked Performance Flash technology solving the IO bottleneck for virtualized and cloud customer implementations,” said Omar Barraza, director, product marketing and management, Astute Networks. “The value of a product will be judged by its deployment in customer environments so this distinction is especially notable.”

Winning products were judged by a panel of industry experts who evaluated each nomination according to the following criteria:

• Distinctiveness of the application, technology, or product
• Central use of flash memory as a solution or innovation
• Technical and business significance to the general marketplace

“The judges of the Flash Memory Summit Awards Committee are always looking for the next killer app for flash memory and Astute Networks has hit a homerun with its Networked Performance Flash solution,” said Tom Coughlin, Summit Chairperson and President Coughlin Associates. “Customers want to achieve the dream of virtualizing 100% of their IT infrastructure and applications and Astute’s innovation of a totally integrated, network-based, shareable high performance flash memory appliance that leverages the advanced features of VMware delivers on that reality.”

Astute Networks was honored at the Flash Memory Summit Awards evening reception in the Exhibit Hall on Wednesday, August 10.