Alberto Farronato, the Director of Product Marketing for Cloud Infrastructure Storage and Availability at VMware, stops by to chat about the recent launch of the VMware* Virtual SAN* (VSAN), which provides a software-defined storage tier that pools compute and DAS resources through the server hypervisor. By clustering server direct-attached HDDs and SSDs, VSAN creates a distributed, shared data store at the hypervisor layer that is designed and optimized for virtual machines. For more information, visit www.vmware.com/now.