India; October 2, 2021. Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) decided to buy VirtuCache to improve the performance of their existing EMC VMAX storage appliance, instead of upgrading to a Pure Storage all-flash array. This proved to be a cheaper alternative to a SAN upgrade and higher performing as well.
Connecticut, USA; August 22, 2021. Foxwoods Casino complemented EMC VNX appliance based FastCache caching, which only cached reads, with VirtuCache host side caching to improve the write performance of their EMC VNX appliances. Use case follows.
Yeoju County, Korea. April 23, 2021. Yeoju University deployed VirtuCache along with a HGST NVME SSD in each host to cache all reads and writes from/to VMs to this VMware host NVME SSD. As a result, Oracle app performance was much improved. Use case details follow.
Daejon, Korea. February 3, 2021. If you combine the VirtuCache policy called ‘Write-Back No Replica’ with host RAM, all reads and writes are cached to in-host RAM, resulting in the lowest latency VMs. Chungnam National University Hospital use case follows, where this policy resulted in 0.1ms latencies at all times.
San Mateo, CA. November 4, 2020. Virtunet Systems has just announced a new lower cost VirtuCache Essentials edition. The Essentials edition differs from the Standard edition in the below three ways. It can only cache reads (Write-Through caching). Caching writes (Write-Back caching) is not supported. For caching writes, you will…