Ray Lucchesi from RayOnStorage writes:

Proximal Data doesn’t believe in agent software. because it takes a long time to deploy and could potentially disrupt IT operations when being installed. In contrast, Proximal Data installs their AutoCache solution software into the hypervisor as a VIB (vSphere Installation Bundle). There was some discussion at SFD4, on whether installing the VIB would be disruptive or not to customer operations. Not being a VMware expert I won’t comment on the results of the discussion but if you want to find out more I suggest viewing the SFD4 video of their Proximal Data’s presentation.

A great overview of the Proximal Data presentation from SFD4.

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