DataCore, the leader in
Parallel-Powered Software,
Application-Adaptive Data Infrastructure and
Hyper-converged Virtual SAN solutions, today announced the results of a new research
study
conducted by TechValidate. The study primarily focused on the
experience of DataCore customer's in terms of performance,
availability/reliability and total cost of ownership (TCO). Overall,
participants reported faster applications with up to 10x performance
increases; higher availability with a 90% or greater reduction in
storage-related downtime; substantial reduction in costs; and greater
productivity with the majority of respondents reporting a 50-90%
decrease in time spent on routine tasks.
Highlights from the findings include:
- 47% of customers reported a 50% or more reduction in storage-related
spending; over 80% of customers reported at least 25% savings.
- The majority of customers reported that they were able to defer or
skip multiple refresh cycles, and over 60% saved by deferring storage
hardware acquisitions by using DataCore to extend the life and enhance
the productivity of current investments.
- 79% of customers reported improvements of at least 3x, and nearly
half of the DataCore customers surveyed reported performance
improvements between 5x-10x.
- 60% reduced storage-related downtime with DataCore by 90% or more;
the majority of customers who had systems deployed for two years or more
reported no storage-related downtime whatsoever.
- 72% of respondents reported a 50% or more decrease in time spent on
managing routine storage tasks, with some noting a reduction as high as
90%.
- All respondents reported a positive ROI with DataCore in the first year; 50% reported a positive ROI in six months or less.
These findings further support that
DataCore offers the best performance and the lowest TCO in the industry
by complementing new data recently published by the Storage Performance
Council (SPC). In a series of recently released SPC-1 benchmarks,
DataCore's current SANsymphony and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN software
achieved the industry's best price-performance, coming in at just $0.08 cents per SPC-1 IOPSTM. The results also measured incredibly fast response times of just 0.32 milliseconds
which were achieved while running the full load of the demanding
enterprise-class application and database benchmark. At 0.32
milliseconds, the results are 3x-10x better than all other reported
results including those from all-flash arrays and million dollar plus
systems.
To highlight the full impact of parallel I/O on performance, DataCore recently announced
the results of new software that will enable servers to utilize
multicores to multiply performance. The software, available in Q2, has
demonstrated an incredible result of more than 1.5 million SPC-1 IOPS
with a new world record response time of just 0.10 milliseconds at 100
percent load.
"This is game changer
which is ahead of the trend and a key element to help organizations
truly be able to have a software-defined data center," DataCore customer
Irvin Nio, IT Architect at Capgemini, noted during the survey.
The new level of
enterprise-class high availability and reliability proved by
TechValidate research can be attributed to DataCore's features including
hardware interoperability, hardware-independent storage services, data
migration capabilities, and more. DataCore's latest addition to its
technology portfolio, parallel I/O, uniquely takes advantage of today's
advanced multi-core server platforms to execute many independent I/O
streams simultaneously across multiple CPU cores - supporting the I/O
needed to run more VMs and application workloads faster and at a much
lower cost. It significantly reduces the latency to service and process
I/Os while enabling companies to benefit from dramatically higher
productivity and huge server consolidation savings.
A total of 1,984
responses were recorded from DataCore customers globally.TechValidate
research data is sourced directly from verified business and technology
professionals. The full findings of the study can be viewed at: https://www.techvalidate.com/product-research/datacore-sansymphony-v.