A blog by Steven Lamb, CEO

Whenever there’s an IOPS/throughput performance mismatch between servers and storage, requiring both server and storage administrators to make ongoing pervasive adjustments, the end result is systems that are held back from reaching their full performance potential. Diagnosing the reasons behind poor performance in today’s complex data infrastructures can be extremely difficult, especially when the issues are intermittent. Much trial and error is often required — a huge time commitment — and the cause of much anxiety in an IT team under the gun to resolve issues quickly.

This is a chronic problem for organizations, especially in today’s increasingly virtualized infrastructure. Traditional “solutions” that attempt to address these issues by fine-tuning the applications or adding ever-increasing amounts of server/memory and storage hardware often fall short in addressing the real root cause of I/O bottlenecks. Using common workarounds such as short stroking HDDs in the storage array, adding SSDs in the storage array or installing PCIe Flash cards, are simply not the silver bullet they purport to be. They are all labor intensive; often complicate the situation further by creating new problems that managers then have to redress, and ultimately contribute to a higher Total Cost of Ownership.

A new approach is available that allows for the acceleration of specific applications; makes better use of existing storage; is transparent to users, applications and storage; works with server virtualization, SAN, DAS, NAS and Cloud storage; and is interoperable with OS file caching. That’s a mighty long list of requirements; NEVEX CacheWorks meets or exceeds all of them as well as being Flash card and storage system agnostic.

Because CacheWorks is policy-based, administrators have the ability to target critical business applications and apply acceleration to them specifically. Whether the applications are running on VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines or physical servers, CacheWorks provides industry-unique control over the Windows memory cache to create a multi-level caching solution that can allow applications to exceed the performance of running fully on Flash.

If your organization is facing performance issues and traditional approaches have persistently fallen short, and if you want your systems to reach their full performance potential, consider our new and innovative software that provides application-specific acceleration – and say goodbye to I/O bottlenecks.

Until next time,

Steve

A blog by Nigel Miller, VP Business Development

Application Performance is the constant headache that IT professionals face every day. Development of affordable Solid State Disk technology has relieved some of the symptoms and opened up a new revenue stream for storage VARs. But it isn’t a complete cure as it only addresses part of the headache. There is a comprehensive cure available, however, and it offers additional profits for VARs: intelligent caching software.

NEVEX CacheWorks is the missing ingredient, the aspirin that enables VARs to offer a complete cure. Bundling our caching software with the VAR’s preferred SSD/Flash hardware addresses the specific customer headache of poor application performance. This combination enables VARs to expand their offering and improve their bottom line.

The appeal for storage VARs to sell CacheWorks via the NEVEX Channel Partnership Program is simple:

•CacheWorks is a drop-in solution that cures the customer’s application performance headache and puts additional profit in the VAR’s pocket;

•CacheWorks runs on 64-bit Windows Servers, physical and virtual machines;

•NEVEX offers a comprehensive channel development program and lucrative margins;

•The breakthrough innovations in CacheWorks provide VARs with the engine to transform the economics of their customers’ storage infrastructures.

NEVEX technology gives VARs the unfair advantage to drive new business and grow revenue. How? NEVEX doesn’t simply accelerate general I/O performance, its caching software goes much further, delivering precise application acceleration where and when it’s needed. CacheWorks is the first caching software that puts customers in control to specify which applications and data are most critical to their business. Unlike conventional caching software that simply promotes the most active data from within a specified LUN and ejects data already resident in the cache, CacheWorks prioritizes targeted applications, ensuring the most business critical applications’ data stays cached for maximum performance. This functionality allows IT administrators to drill down and accelerate the applications that are causing the performance headache. CacheWorks is the aspirin that enables VARs to deliver the cure.

It’s this combination of precisely targeted application acceleration and economic value that makes CacheWorks such a compelling and powerful product for VARs to sell. Until the end of January, NEVEX is offering an Early Adopter Program for VARs that specialize in database optimization, virtualization enterprise application storage and server infrastructure. To learn more about the NEVEX Channel Partnership Program and Early Adopter specials, interested VARs are invited to contact NEVEX Business Development at partners@nevex.com.

Nigel Miller, VP Business Development