Israel Electric Company Adopts Kaminario SSD SAN

The Israel Electric
company (IEC) chose Kaminario, Inc., a supplier of all solid-state SAN storage
systems, to provide the Kaminario K2 system for accelerating the response time
performance of its central SAP ERP system processes by up to 10 times.

The Electric
company’s SAP ERP system serves thousands of users throughout the country and
performs dozens of processes, transactions and batch processes. Tens of
thousands of transactions are executed in SAP each month. Following complaints
regarding slow transaction execution times, the company decided to implement
the Kaminario K2 system to accelerate its SAP ERP environment.

As a result,
there has been an average of 25 times improvement in all tested transactions,
with most of the organization’s critical ERP processes accelerated by up to 10
times. The average processing time of SAP’s transactions decreased from 600
milliseconds to 400 milliseconds, database processing time was accelerated from
300 milliseconds to 150 milliseconds or less, and the I/O wait time decreased
to almost zero, which caused a 700 percent improvement in latency times in the
Oracle-based database. In addition, an improvement was achieved in two
important ERP array measurements: average response times for DB Request Time
and Dialog Step (in the Electric company, there are about half a million Dialog
Steps every day, not including batch) were improved and
now take half of the maximal time required by SAP’s definitions.

The
Kaminario K2 solution, deployed by IEC, is an enterprise all solid-state
SAN storage system allowing for fast access to information as compared to
standard disk storage systems.

"These are significant improvements and
considerable time savings," said Yosi Shneck, CIO, Israeli Electric
company. "These improvements were
achieved with Kaminario’s solution operating alongside the existing storage
array, without replacing a thing in the infrastructure array."

Schneck
continued: "If we multiply tens of
thousands of transactions and thousands of users in the company, Kaminario
helped us save enormous amounts of time and eliminated unnecessary pressures.
Besides the significant speed and response time improvements, we have
accomplished additional goals: the system is stable, there are no bottlenecks
and there is no need for trying to improve and better the performances."

"Kaminario, with its K2 device, succeeds in
accelerating these processes because it succeeded in developing a simple and
available technology that overrides the need to work with hard disk drives,
which considerably slow down I/O operations. Combining solid-state technology
with standard hardware and an innovative operating system makes Kaminario’s
solution the fastest in the market," stated Oded Nonberg, responsible
for IEC’s SAP infrastructure.