Delphix and Pure Storage Team

Delphix Corporation, in agile data, and Pure Storage, Inc., an all-flash enterprise storage company, announced the results of a benchmark test run on their combined solutions, which achieved a 10X cost reduction to deliver performance storage for key database applications over mechanical disk storage.

Performance-constrained database developers can now evaluate and develop new features for their key database applications at reduced latency, while reducing the overall cost of storage.

Delphix + Pure Storage Powering All-Flash Enterprise
Many enterprises struggle with database performance limiting their business processes. When it comes to database development, the large and complex landscape of databases within an enterprise can cripple the productivity of the very developers who can solve these problems. Delphix’s database virtualization technology together with Pure Storage’s all-flash storage arrays now make it possible for enterprises to move their entire database landscape to flash at one-tenth the cost of equivalent disk-based solutions, with no performance tradeoff.

“When you virtualize a database, you create a highly random IO stream to the storage that brings mechanical disk arrays to their knees,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP products, Pure Storage. “Used in combination with the Pure Storage FlashArray, which thrives on random IO, and our inline deduplication technology, virtualized databases produced by Delphix can now consume very little space and still have plenty of IO headroom.”

A recent benchmark test conducted by Delphix and Pure Storage confirmed that their joint solution offers 10x improvements in price and performance when compared to a disk-based storage array from a legacy storage vendor. The companies created and maintained the concurrent operation of 26 virtual database copies, each 1TB in size, on the FlashArray. The combined solution performed over 35,000 transactions per minute, while consuming 1.5TB of total storage; the combined solution can sustain is more than 900,000 transactions per minute with zero performance impact. By comparison, running the same databases on the leading legacy disk-based storage array to achieve the same performance and availability required over 15x the storage at 10x the cost.

“Databases are critical to every enterprise,” said Rick Caccia, VP marketing, Delphix. “Customers can now move every database copy in their data center to all-flash and still cut a zero from their bill, courtesy of Delphix and Pure Storage.”

“As a Delphix customer for several years, our company has enjoyed significant agility gains across our key database applications,” said Bryan Wise, senior director of IT at a high-tech manufacturer. “Now, by combining Delphix and Pure Storage in our data center, we have connected that agility to greater storage performance and efficiencies that have prepared our architecture for the future.”

Delphix and Pure Storage were offering demonstrations of their joint solution and benchmark results at Oracle OpenWorld, September 23-27 in San Francisco, CA.

To download the results of the benchmark test conducted by Delphix and Pure Storage (registration needed)