THE CHALLENGE

Today, getting database performance means adding disks, RAM, servers, and engineering resources, each of which unbalances already inefficient systems and increases both capital and operating costs. Today’s Enterprise SSDs imitate disk drive technology, slightly improving raw storage performance without resolving the core inefficiencies that impact database performance.

Poorly performing databases cause many problems including:

• Slow applications, resulting in customer and staff complaints or even lost sales
• Slow reporting and business intelligence queries, resulting in lost productivity, poor market awareness, or slow time-to-market
• DBA frustration rerunning overnight maintenance tasks that didn’t complete
  on time or that stopped during the night.

THE FUSION-IO SOLUTION

Fusion’s ioMemory is a revolutionary NAND Flash-based memory tier that restores balance and efficiency to resources like DRAM, CPU, network bandwidth, and  disk storage. It delivers unmatched performance to database servers, along with enterprise-grade reliability, all while dramatically reducing infrastructure needs.

Benefits of ioMemory products include:

Highest IOPS and bandwidth with the lowest latency from a single device.

Customer can easily expect:

- 3-10x faster query processing

- 3-10x faster replication

• Performance that scales linearly with more devices
• Ability to architect simple, elegant systems that dramatically reduce latency between data media, database applications, and applications using databases
• Times for batch jobs, including business intelligence, backup, and recovery processes reduced from hours to minutes, with the ability to run them during business hours
• Database integrity checks in a fraction of the time
• Strong data protection, with advanced error correction, non-volatile memory, onboard chip-level parity, and power-cut
• Eliminate wasted capacity and server real estate of disk arrays
• Eliminate mechanical failures and disk maintenance tasks with memory that lasts longer than its host server
• Slash power and cooling costs
• Best price/performance value on the market¹

WHAT MAKES IOMEMORY DIFFERENT?

ioMemory is about much more than improving raw interface performance for archival storage. Its architecture is unique from all other solid-state technology offerings on the market today. Its NAND flash acts like memory rather than disk, eliminating the complexity of traditional storage architecture that creates unnecessary context switching, deep queuing, and I/O storms. The end result is that Fusion-io products dramatically improve application performance, even dramatically out-performing RAIDed SSD-based storage arrays.

The following test, performed by Tom’s Hardware demonstrates this difference. Whereas, the ioMemory-based ioDrive delivers five times the performance of an SSD, it improves application performance 50 times.

 Raw Storage Performance                                                    Application Performance