Vu sur REUTERS - Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:00am EDT
Critical Applications Now Deliver Real-time Results; Energy Consumption Cut in Half, €400,000 in Cost Savings SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Critical Applications Now Deliver Real-time Results; Energy Consumption Cut in Half, €400,000 in Cost Savings SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Copy of what was demonstrated at Oracle OpenWorld but here with SSD and in production @ SETAO : Pillar Axiom 600 SSD, Sun Fire X4170, Qlogic HBAs and Brocade FC Switch running in VMware vSphere with VMDirectPath.
When SETAO replaced its NetApp NAS system with the Pillar Axiom, it provided the perfect architecture for the company`s Solid State Drive (SSD) deployment. Société d'Exploitation du Tramway et du réseau de bus de l'Agglomération d'Orléans (SETAO) manages the urban transportation network of the city of Orléans, France which transports about 100,000 passengers per day.
As part of that responsibility, the company runs a robust traffic simulation application to explore different re-routing scenarios for the best solution to a major accident or other traffic problem. Additionally, SETAO embarked on a new government security project to store and manage video from about 500 municipal surveillance cameras. In order to accommodate the sophisticated simulation application - while not hindering its performance with the massive amounts of archived video - SETAO decided to deploy SSD Bricks in its Pillar Axiom storage system.
"We had already seen our applications run seven to 10 times faster when we initially brought in the Axiom," said Olivier Parcollet, IT Manager at SETAO. "But when we added the SSD Brick, it was beyond what we expected. We can run our simulation application 20 times faster using SSD, and we`ve also benefitted from huge cost and energy savings with the added efficiency measures."
The added efficiency which includes savings in power, space, labor, and equipment, reduced SETAO`s total cost of ownership by 30 percent, or approximately €400,000 (about $580,000 USD) over three years. Prior to deploying Pillar`s SSDs, it took about two hours to run traffic scenarios. Now the IT team can run those same scenarios in real-time, making time to run 20 - 30 more simulations per day. Traffic problems can be resolved immediately versus having passengers sitting in traffic for two hours while they wait for the problem to be fixed.
While SETAO uses SSDs for the intense simulations, they have SATA on the same system for lower priority data, such as the organization`s vast video archive. Adding high-performance SSDs to complement the Axiom`s SATA Bricks means the customer can boost the system`s Premium class of service by as much as 20X. Pillar`s patented Quality of Service (QoS) allows these technologies to be deployed across different service levels on a single system while ensuring that the proper priority level goes to each application and data set.
"The combination of SSDs with Pillar`s Application-Aware technology overcomes the challenge of running several different types of applications on one storage system as SETAO does," said Bob Maness, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Channel Sales, Pillar Data Systems. "If users mix SSD and SATA with other vendor solutions, they would experience significant hits to their high-priority application performance. In those instances, there is a tug-of-war for performance. When you have the right architecture, there is no trade-off. You get unprecedented performance levels and drastic TCO savings."
SETAO manages data from trams and buses, vehicle radios, billing systems, electrical systems, traffic lights, and video feeds from surveillance cameras throughout Orléans. In addition to gathering and maintaining this information, the company makes real-time traffic information available via mobile devices and makes surveillance data available for law enforcement. To manage this massive amount of data, the company maintains 15 Oracle databases and other applications on 70 virtual machines. The Pillar Axiom is the storage backbone for the entire operation.
Parcollet added, "Our previous NetApp system required three IT people. Now we only need one person to manage the system. The freed up time and resources help us be more customer-oriented instead of IT-oriented."
About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops Application-Aware Storage systems for midsize and enterprise organizations. With the highest utilization rates in the storage industry, the Pillar Axiom solution is the most efficient storage system on the market today. The Pillar Axiom cuts administrative time and total cost of ownership by more than 50 percent as well as provides the only storage system that can differentiate services based on application priority. Designed from the ground up as the only true Application-Aware Storage system, the Pillar Axiom allows users to match multiple application characteristics to the appropriate service levels within a single storage platform. Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison.
As part of that responsibility, the company runs a robust traffic simulation application to explore different re-routing scenarios for the best solution to a major accident or other traffic problem. Additionally, SETAO embarked on a new government security project to store and manage video from about 500 municipal surveillance cameras. In order to accommodate the sophisticated simulation application - while not hindering its performance with the massive amounts of archived video - SETAO decided to deploy SSD Bricks in its Pillar Axiom storage system.
"We had already seen our applications run seven to 10 times faster when we initially brought in the Axiom," said Olivier Parcollet, IT Manager at SETAO. "But when we added the SSD Brick, it was beyond what we expected. We can run our simulation application 20 times faster using SSD, and we`ve also benefitted from huge cost and energy savings with the added efficiency measures."
The added efficiency which includes savings in power, space, labor, and equipment, reduced SETAO`s total cost of ownership by 30 percent, or approximately €400,000 (about $580,000 USD) over three years. Prior to deploying Pillar`s SSDs, it took about two hours to run traffic scenarios. Now the IT team can run those same scenarios in real-time, making time to run 20 - 30 more simulations per day. Traffic problems can be resolved immediately versus having passengers sitting in traffic for two hours while they wait for the problem to be fixed.
While SETAO uses SSDs for the intense simulations, they have SATA on the same system for lower priority data, such as the organization`s vast video archive. Adding high-performance SSDs to complement the Axiom`s SATA Bricks means the customer can boost the system`s Premium class of service by as much as 20X. Pillar`s patented Quality of Service (QoS) allows these technologies to be deployed across different service levels on a single system while ensuring that the proper priority level goes to each application and data set.
"The combination of SSDs with Pillar`s Application-Aware technology overcomes the challenge of running several different types of applications on one storage system as SETAO does," said Bob Maness, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Channel Sales, Pillar Data Systems. "If users mix SSD and SATA with other vendor solutions, they would experience significant hits to their high-priority application performance. In those instances, there is a tug-of-war for performance. When you have the right architecture, there is no trade-off. You get unprecedented performance levels and drastic TCO savings."
SETAO manages data from trams and buses, vehicle radios, billing systems, electrical systems, traffic lights, and video feeds from surveillance cameras throughout Orléans. In addition to gathering and maintaining this information, the company makes real-time traffic information available via mobile devices and makes surveillance data available for law enforcement. To manage this massive amount of data, the company maintains 15 Oracle databases and other applications on 70 virtual machines. The Pillar Axiom is the storage backbone for the entire operation.
Parcollet added, "Our previous NetApp system required three IT people. Now we only need one person to manage the system. The freed up time and resources help us be more customer-oriented instead of IT-oriented."
About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops Application-Aware Storage systems for midsize and enterprise organizations. With the highest utilization rates in the storage industry, the Pillar Axiom solution is the most efficient storage system on the market today. The Pillar Axiom cuts administrative time and total cost of ownership by more than 50 percent as well as provides the only storage system that can differentiate services based on application priority. Designed from the ground up as the only true Application-Aware Storage system, the Pillar Axiom allows users to match multiple application characteristics to the appropriate service levels within a single storage platform. Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison.
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