Gardner Packard Health have radiology related applications running in VMs. Radiology applications process large amounts of images and related metadata, typically in small block sizes. At this customer this workload was also write intensive. It is such write intensive small block workload that stresses storage appliances considerably. This is because…
Tourbillon Capital have a proprietary trading application that required under 5ms write latencies at all times. This problem was compounded by the fact that they also had a stretched SAN cluster that spanned a WAN link, which meant that writes from the application had to be committed to the SAN…
This link on VMware’s website states that our host side caching software is on their Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for VMware’s API for IO Filter (VAIO). Its great to be on VMware’s HCL since some customers now might feel more comfortable with our software. But just to be clear,…
Fairbanks Sewer and Water is a Utilities company in Alaska. FSW’s IT department had deployed over a hundred desktop and server VMs. Their end users of virtual desktops were complaining about long application load times, long boot times, cursor freezes, and general slowness in their VDI VMs, all classic symptoms…
ServiceNow’s Itapp Dev/Ops team wanted to improve build times for their dev/test infrastructure. They knew that storage latencies needed to be reduced considerably to achieve this goal. They ideally wanted to improve storage performance without upgrading their storage appliance or network. To achieve this end, Virtucache was installed on each…