Condusiv Amassed 1,000 Virtualization Customers

Condusiv Technologies Corporation
announced that its V-locity VM acceleration software solution has amassed one
of the largest virtualization followings with over 1,000 midmarket and large
enterprise customers.

The software allows IT organizations to go faster in
virtualized environments, improving application performance by 50% without the
cost of new or additional hardware. V-locity VM includes Condusiv’s
IntelliMemory and IntelliWrite technologies to optimize reads and writes via
dynamic server-side caching on available solid-state resources, and the
prevention of split I/Os that occur when a file is typically broken into pieces
before write, which also penalizes subsequent reads.

"We are extremely pleased to have
surpassed our 1,000th V-locity VM customer. Virtual environments, cloud services,
mobile devices, and big data all contribute to the rise in digital information
that organizations must manage. Data must be efficiently utilized to drive
value for an organization’s competitive advantage," said Jerry
Baldwin, CEO, Condusiv. "CIOs find
themselves investing as much as 80% of their annual IT budget on maintaining
existing IT infrastructure and services. V-locity customers typically see 50%
or more performance gains on their most I/O intensive applications like virtual
desktops, SQL and Exchange, streaming media, web applications, and web servers.
That gain also comes with a very unique proposition – a savings of 80-90% from
their hardware capital expense budget to achieve those performance levels. At
the end of the day, the CIO is able to free up 80% with this savings to
reinvest in innovative technologies, new markets, or add to the bottom line."

According to IDC, the I/O problem stems, in part, from the fact that while the
number of VM shipments is growing at an average of 25% annually, the number of
physical servers shipped is growing at a modest 2-3%. As more workloads are put
on virtual servers and heavier workloads are placed on physical servers, this
can triple or quadruple the amount of random I/O generated from a single server,
burdening the compute infrastructure. Increasingly, the storage controller and
disk architectures cannot keep pace with this growing random I/O.

As a first step to I/O optimization, V-locity VM eliminates nearly all
unnecessary I/O operations at the OS level by ensuring files are written as a
single, contiguous file, which in turn eliminates all unnecessary I/O
operations on subsequent reads. Second, it caches frequently accessed data
within available server memory without resource contention to the application
to keep read requests from traveling the full distance to storage and
back.

With V-locity at the top of the technology stack, optimizing I/O at the point
of origin, this means only productive I/O is pushed through the server,
network, and storage. This approach to I/O optimization complements
technologies that may already be running to promote IO/s or latency reduction,
including SSDs, flash cards, and SAS. And since I/O is optimized at the source,
V-locity VM is network storage-agnostic, providing benefits to storage
features like snapshots, replication, thin provisioning, and deduplication.

Ingredient technology
changes the game

Write I/O Optimization (IntelliWrite technology)

• Eliminate unnecessary I/Os caused by the Windows OS splitting files into
  multiple write requests
• I/O traffic is optimized before entering server, network, and storage
• Proactively provides I/O benefit to advanced storage features

Read I/O Optimization (IntelliMemory
technology)

• Reduce I/O bottlenecks by intelligently caching active data
• Based on usage and time, V-locity’s self-learning intelligence dynamically
  caches data ahead of time on available server resources

• Server-side caching eliminates unnecessary I/O traffic and improves response
  time by 50%

V-locity VM acceleration software is a solution for NAS and SAN network storage
applications. As much as typical customers may see 50% or more performance
gains, Condusiv will guarantee a minimum of 25% performance boost on VMs, or the
software is free.