University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Opts for PernixData FVP

PernixData, Inc. announced that the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education has selected its FVP software to optimize storage performance while lowering storage costs.

With PernixData’s storage acceleration software, the UGA Center for Continuing Education saved money on the purchase of a new HP 3PAR storage array, while deploying a new storage architecture that lets UGA virtualize mission critical applications without sacrificing performance.

“PernixData FVP software delivers the best performance at a fraction of the cost of all flash storage arrays,” said Corey Doster, IT director, Georgia Center. “This has enabled us to virtualize more applications like mission critical databases, while saving tens of thousands of dollars in unnecessary server and storage hardware. With PernixData software, we can easily scale-out storage performance to keep pace with our virtual demands.“

FVP software, a platform for scale-out storage acceleration, virtualizes high speed server resources like flash and RAM into a clustered acceleration tier that enables IT administrators to scale-out storage performance independent of storage capacity. The result is read and write performance for all VMs, without the need to change existing server and storage infrastructure. By creating a new software-based infrastructure for server-side storage intelligence, PernixData changes how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers.

After deploying FVP, the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education saw a 4x increase in VM performance and an 8x increase in VM density. In addition, by decoupling storage performance from capacity, the department saved 60% in their new SAN purchase by reducing the speed of drives needed. FVP was deployed in minutes, with no changes to their existing VMs, servers or storage infrastructure, making it a complement to the department’s IT infrastructure.