Virtualizing Storage to Accelerate Performance of Tier-1 Apps

Demanding business applications like databases, ERP and mail systems create bottlenecks in any storage architecture due to their rapid activity and intensive I/O and transactional requirements. To offset this, many companies buy high-end storage systems while leaving terabytes of storage unused – a large and costly mistake. Augie Gonzalez, Director of Product Marketing, DataCore, the leader in software-defined storage, will discuss the benefits of storage virtualization on tier-one applications – improved application response times and higher availability – and steps companies must take when virtualizing tier one applications. In a joint presentation, Augie and Dustin Fennel, Vice President and CIO, Mission Community Hospital, will discuss how his organization achieved their performance and uptime objectives, as well as how DataCore helped the hospital achieve a high-performance, Tier-1 storage solution at a fraction of the cost when comparing it to traditional storage strategies. The discussion will encompass the excellent results the hospital has seen from its PACS system after implementing DataCore; how a software-based storage virtualization architecture made high availability both easy and affordable; and how DataCore enables the healthcare provider to be storage agnostic, to have different tiers of storage from different vendors, and to manage everything from a single interface.