ASL was in SQL batch job hell.

A regular import of 150 million records into their SQL database would take 27 hours to complete.

ASL’s account team and clients needed access to the most current data immediately, but the 27 hour batch job meant that access would slip a full day of production or even two. That wasn’t acceptable as some clients would hold back business while waiting on new data to come online.

“Typically, IT professionals respond to application performance issues by reactively buying more hardware. Without the luxury of a padded budget, we needed to find a way to improve performance on the hardware infrastructure we already have,” said Ralph Ortiz, IT Manager, ASL Marketing.

ASL upgraded their network to 10GbE and was looking at either a heavy investment in SSD or doing a full rip-and-replace of the SAN architecture before its full lifecycle. Since that kind of hardware investment wasn’t in the budget, they decided to take a look at V-locity® I/O reduction software.

“I was very doubtful that V-locity could improve my I/O performance through a software-only solution. But with nothing to lose, we evaluated V-locity on our SQL servers and were amazed to see that, literally overnight, we doubled throughput from server to storage and cut our SQL batch job times in half,” said Ortiz.

After deploying V-locity, SQL batch jobs that used to take 27 hours to complete now take 12–14 hours to complete. The weekly college database import that used to take 17 hours to complete is now down to 7 hours.

Read the full case study – ASL Doubles Throughput with V-locity I/O Reduction Software