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French Cloud and MSP Quadria Equipped With Proximal Data AutoCache

"3X improvement" in VM density and better performance

Proximal Data, Inc., provider of hypervisor I/O intelligence software solutions, announced that Quadria SA, a cloud and MSP with 17 sites across Europe, has selected its AutoCache to deliver on its performance-based SLAs with customers.

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Quadria observed a three-times improvement in VM density and improved performance for business applications while reducing high CAPEX costs. A

utoCache is a server-side caching solution with I/O intelligence that removes I/O bottlenecks and increases VM density by up to three times to attain maximum performance for business-critical applications.

Headquartered in France, Quadria serves more than 5,000 customers across industries such as government, banking, insurance and health care. To meet its performance SLA obligations, Quadria had to overprovision its Dell servers with DRAM storage.

What differentiates our services from those of other cloud service providers is being able to guarantee that our customers receive fast and consistent service,” said Cyril Ruche, director of operations, Quadria. “We found our only option was to increase the DRAM on each Dell server, which drove up the acquisition cost of the hardware and required more power, increasing our operational costs as well.

Quadria learned of AutoCache through StoreAlliance, an EMEA-based storage industry sales and business development consultancy. AutoCache was deployed using a modest amount of flash (300-400GB) as a read cache with write-around and write-through semantics. AutoCache employs adaptive caching techniques to optimize performance and efficiency over time for servers running VMware ESXi and Hyper-V hypervisors.

With AutoCache, we were able to meet and even exceed our performance SLAs using much less DRAM,” said Ruche. “That reduced our CAPEX substantially, and we reduced our OPEX as well. Installing AutoCache resulted in a double win that was more than I ever expected.

Quadria is so ecstatic about the results it received with AutoCache that it has decided to become an AutoCache reseller

AutoCache proved to be very cost-effective, with a value-to-cost proposition that is amazingly good,” said Ruche. “We installed and deployed AutoCache very easily, and without disrupting our existing environment. The Proximal Data engineering team was highly responsive whenever we had a question or required any assistance.

Quadria has 17 locations throughout Europe. The company achieved a consolidated turnover of €95 million as of March 31, 2013, and employs 320 staff across the country.

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