Two Customers for Nimbus Flash Arrays Aimed at SQL

Nimbus Data Systems, Inc. announced new customer wins in performance-critical SQL Server environments.

Aerospace Optics, Inc. selected the Nimbus S-Class as the foundation for its new low-latency SAN infrastructure.

Loxogon, Inc., provider of real-time revenue cycle solutions for the healthcare industry, chose the scalable Nimbus E-Class flash memory system to accelerate their existing SQL Server deployment.

These customers, and more, discovered that implementing flash memory technology is simpler and more effective than tiering, caching, spindle short-stroking and endless attempts at performance tuning with legacy disk arrays.

"IT environments continue to demand greater performance and flexibility," said Pushan Rinnen, research director at Gartner. "Flash technology is empowering customers to meet the challenging requirement to improve processes in today’s high performance applications while shrinking the datacenter footprint dramatically."

Aerospace Optics chose the S-Class flash memory system as part of its migration to a virtualized environment.

The company’s heavily utilized ERP application, which relies on a large SQL Server database, struggled to keep pace. Nimbus’ low-latency storage freed the company of their previous performance constraints, allowing them eliminate underutilized servers, reduce power consumption by 3,000 watts, and reduce SQL backup times from 18 minutes to 3 minutes.

"The introduction of the Nimbus S-Class allowed us to build out our SAN with speed and reliability previously unattainable with other tested HDD and SSD solutions," said Michael Perry, director of IT at Aerospace Optics. "The performance of the Nimbus S-Class cut our SQL backup times by nearly 90%. We also found Nimbus’ price/performance per TB to be significantly better than competitors."

For Loxogon, a software provider that enables real-time access to healthcare operational data, rapid response time is essential.

With prior disk-based solutions, complex customer transactions and SQL maintenance operations experienced prolonged latency and bottlenecks. The company needed to make a change to their storage infrastructure and opted for flash memory. Following the implementation of the E-Class system, average disk latency improved nearly 100x and complex transaction and query times decreased by nearly 95%.

"In order to optimize Loxogon’s software, we needed to eliminate the IO limit imposed by our existing rotational disk arrays," explains Andrew Yashchuk, CEO of Loxogon. "We had two objectives with our storage project: improve our customer experience and accelerate all business operations dependent on SQL Server. The Nimbus E-Class enabled us to achieve both while also increasing storage capacity within our budget. Index rebuilds that took up to hours are now down to minutes, and transactions that took up to 10 seconds are now down to 200 milliseconds or less."