PrimaryIO (formerly CacheBox) today announced PrimaryIO APA technology
with VMware vSphere through the vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, to
accelerate the I/O performance of Tier 1 applications such as Oracle
Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB and MySQL.
“PrimaryIO is pleased to have been selected to participate in the VMware
vSphere APIs for IO Filtering Early Access Program,” said PrimaryIO CEO
Lorenzo Salhi. “At VMworld 2015, we will demonstrate our unique
Application Performance Acceleration technology that delivers high
levels of performance improvement by intelligently selecting and
accelerating primary application data on faster solid state storage.”
Enterprise applications are commonly virtualized using VMware vSphere,
the industry leading hypervisor. Maintaining the IO performance required
by Tier 1 business critical applications can be a challenge, however,
especially as virtual machine (VM) densities, and in turn IO demands,
increase. PrimaryIO APA technology provides both read- and write-caching
of frequently accessed data to significantly increase IO performance,
while leveraging unique intelligence to distinguish primary data (such
as database write transactions or indexes) to provide highly efficient
utilization of expensive flash storage.
“We welcome PrimaryIO to the growing ecosystem of partners providing a
broad range of software-defined integrated data services for vSphere,”
said Skip Bacon, vice president of Products, Storage and Availability,
VMware. “The vSphere APIs for IO Filtering provide a high-performance
interface for these data services, and enable streamlined administration
using vSphere Storage Policy-Based Management to best utilize their
capabilities to meet application requirements.”
“In conversations with our IT clients, a common theme we hear is the
need to improve storage performance of virtualized applications, cost
effectively and without risk,” said Russ Fellows, senior partner with
Evaluator Group. “PrimaryIO goes beyond traditional read-caching to
deliver a read-write acceleration solution that is application specific.
We have witnessed, and recently documented, the performance increases
for applications using PrimaryIO APA in an Evaluator Group Lab
Validation report and the results are significant.”