We recently completed a case study with a top construction company who deployed V-locity® I/O reduction software to improve speed on Citrix and SQL applications and avoided unnecessary hardware costs.

Performance on Teichert’s Citrix and SQL servers that were running critical applications was beginning to suffer due to the growth of data, increased number of users, and infrastructure virtualization. When user complaints about the slowness of the live-order entry system, queries taking too long, and poor system performance in general were at a high, Steve Lomax, Teichert’s Senior Windows Systems Administrator, began to look at various solutions to optimize their infrastructure.

Having already been a Diskeeper customer, the company decided to evaluate Condusiv’s V-locity® I/O reduction software and were pleased to find that they no longer needed to implement any of the other solutions they were looking at to optimize performance. Steve explained, “We were surprised to learn that Condusiv had advanced their software to such a degree that they were now proactively optimizing writes in-line, cutting out a ton of write I/O that was previously hammering our SAN. We upgraded from a NetApp tiered storage solution…to a hybrid-flash Tintri T850 and experienced the same results from V-locity regardless of the brand or type of storage we had underlying our data center.”

The company saw major improvement across the board and particularly on their Citrix and SQL servers. On their 30 busiest servers, V-locity had prevented 41% of write I/O traffic from occurring and 50% of read I/O traffic from storage due to DRAM read caching.

Deploying V-locity to their virtual infrastructure eliminated the need to spend money on additional hardware and other 3rd party performance solutions. Steve said, “We were looking at other solutions that could give us a performance boost…[but] were able to skip all that because V-locity solved it with a simple install right into the VM and that’s it. You’re done. I would recommend V-locity to anyone that doesn’t want to be stuck with unnecessary hardware costs and needs a solution to add an extra layer of enhanced performance.”

Steve concluded by describing the positive impacts brought on by V-locity’s performance gains. “We’ve seen at least a 50-60% drop in performance-related issues…General frustration is gone, users are more productive and efficient, customers don’t have to wait long periods of time to process orders, and the IT department is freed up to focus on more important initiatives relating to the company’s mission and core values.”

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