V-locity 4 acceleration software allows IT organizations to go faster than ever before in virtualized environments without the cost of new or additional storage hardware. By optimizing reads and writes, V-locity improves VM performance by up to 50%, eliminating application bottlenecks and enabling more VMs on a single, physical server. V-locity I/O optimization is specifically tailored for virtual environments, leveraging a SAN or NAS as it proactively provides I/O benefit without negatively impacting advanced storage features like snapshots, replication, data deduplication and thin provisioning. V-locity's proactive technologies allow transparent and automatic operation to maximize VM performance while minimizing the impact on IT staff.