Conatus Capital Management Opted for Kaminario All-Flash Array

Kaminario, Inc. announced that Conatus
Capital Management LP (Conatus), a CT-based investment advisory firm, has
selected its K2 all-flash storage to increase the performance of its
financial analysis and reporting system while maintaining HA and
data protection.

In less than a day after installing K2, Conatus saw a huge reduction in
reporting and charting response time – from more than one minute to just
seconds. Conatus also boosted system and application startup time by six times
and reduced its daily data loading process by six times, from six hours to less
than one and a half hours.

Conatus’ internal traders query historical data and charting reports, as well
as perform real-time searches and queries, from a virtualized VMware-based
financial data warehouse and data reporting system. Conatus wanted to provide
its traders with a faster, more responsive financial analysis and reporting
system so they can make timelier trading decisions. However, it was important that
its storage infrastructure deliver faster response times without compromising
data protection or flexibility. Improving system and application startup time
was also critical to Conatus, particularly in a virtualized environment. In
addition, the firm wanted to reduce the processing time for its growing global trading data to within the daily window of time between the
closing of the US markets and the opening of the Asian markets.

Conatus selected K2 all-flash storage because of its high
performance and built-in HA and data protection capabilities.

"K2 will allow us to migrate
portions of our VMware infrastructure to a much faster storage platform without
compromising high availability and data protection," explained Hans
Bleuel, CTO, Conatus. "With K2, we
will be able to conduct deeper market analysis in a shorter timeframe while
also improving the workflow for our end users. And in terms of performance per
dollar, we have doubled our ROI in Kaminario K2."

Conatus also reported that the firm has lowered its TCO because of the much
smaller footprint and power consumption of K2, which utilizes only one-third of
the physical space of the previous Conatus storage system, yet provides the
same amount of storage capacity.

Bleuel stressed: "Our staff will be able to spend more time
analyzing results and less time waiting for the system to create its respective
reports."