Condusiv Debuts 3X Faster Caching Engine

Condusiv Technologies, which provides software-only storage performance solutions for virtual and physical server environments, has released V-locity 6.0, featuring Condusiv’s IntelliMemory server-side DRAM read caching engine, available via channel partners.

The caching engine is three times faster than the previous version due to a behavioral analytics engine that focuses on “caching effectiveness” instead of “cache hits,” the company said. meanwhile, the V-locity 6.0 is I/O reduction software for virtualized environments delivers 50-300 percent faster application performance without any additional hardware.

“Typically, when a vendor is into the sixth generation of any technology, performance enhancement is incremental in nature. That status quo couldn’t be further from the truth as we just released the highest performing product in the 33-year history of the company that is now 3X faster than the previous version of V-locity,” said Brian Morin, SVP of global marketing at Condusiv Technologies. “Performance bottlenecks from I/O inefficiencies are plaguing today’s enterprises with an expensive and unsustainable business model of reactively buying more flash or spindles to satisfy application performance SLAs. With the release of V-locity 6.0, we are ending this vicious cycle with software intelligence that cures the problem of increasingly smaller, more fractured, and random I/O that penalizes application performance.”

V-locity 6.0 contains two key technologies that reduce I/O from VM (virtual machine) to storage. The first is its proprietary IntelliWrite engine that increases I/O density from VM to storage by adding a layering of intelligence into the Windows OS that eliminates I/O fracturing so writes (and subsequent reads) are processed in a more contiguous and sequential manner. This reduces the I/O requirement for any given workload and increases throughput since more data is processed with each I/O operation. The second key technology, IntelliMemory DRAM read caching, has been greatly enhanced in V-locity 6.0 by focusing on serving only the smallest, random I/O – the primary culprit that dampens overall system performance the most. IntelliMemory has also been enhanced with an extremely lightweight compression engine that expands the amount of data that can be serviced by DRAM without visible CPU overhead.

“Typical IT administrators respond to application performance issues by reactively throwing more expensive server and storage hardware at them, without understanding what the real problem is,” said Rich Reitenauer, manager of infrastructure management and support at Alvernia University. “Higher education budgets can’t afford that kind of brute-force approach. By trying V-locity I/O reduction software first, we were able to double the performance of our LMS app sitting on SQL, stop all complaints about performance, stop the application from timing out on students, and avoid an expensive forklift hardware upgrade.”