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University to Save Approximately $200K and Over 50% of Storage Costs Over Next Year
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Alacritech,
the pioneer in NFS storage acceleration, today announced that the
University of Portland has deployed Alacritech's ANX
1500 Network File System (NFS) acceleration appliance to implement a
virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) across their campus network. The
ANX 1500 allowed the University to overcome storage IO challenges and
deliver increased performance while cutting both short and long-term
costs.
Storage can be a costly performance roadblock within VDI environments.
The University of Portland, while experiencing initial success in its
VDI pilot, knew that to support a University wide roll-out addressing
3,000 users, including support for its newly re-designed,
state-of-the-art digital library, required that its storage be better
optimized to better deal with read latency. Left unchecked, NFS writes
would consume NAS bandwidth and steal from NFS read performance. Despite
using higher speed SAS disk drives and Flash as cache in its NAS
implementation, read latency was still creeping in.
To address the VDI storage bottleneck, the University elected to deploy
a pure SSD array solution. While latencies did fall, the solution was
expensive and represented an adjunct solution to its present and valued
NAS infrastructure.
Tom Ank, the storage IT engineer for the University, was faced with the
need to add more SSD storage to support the wider roll-out when he was
presented with the Alacritech solution. He chose Alacritech because he
was intrigued by their ability to provide equal or better performance
than SSD storage at a fraction of the cost.
“I liked the idea that Alacritech’s ANX platform could directly
integrate with our current NAS system, rather than our current
configuration, which was two distinct, separately managed storage
systems. Furthermore, the read latency for the ANX was actually less
than our pure SSD solution and could be purchased at a fraction of the
cost. The ANX also enabled us to use less expensive and higher capacity
media behind our filers,” said Ank.
“The fact that the ANX 1500 was able to demonstrate less latency than a
pure SSD array, with ample headroom to offload more applications, is a
testimony to Alacritech’s data acceleration technologies,” said Doug
Rainbolt, Alacritech’s VP of Marketing.
By making use of the ANX 1500, the University expects to save
approximately $200K over the next year. The ANX 1500 will also extend
the life of the filer, providing even greater savings. In addition, SATA
drives can now be effectively integrated into the storage system rather
than more costly SAS hard drives. As a result, the University is
anticipating that in subsequent fiscal years, they will save around 50%
per year off the cost of additional storage.
About University of Portland
The University of Portland has been Oregon's Catholic University for
more than 100 years and is guided by the Congregation of Holy Cross.
U.S. News & World Report ranks the institution as one of the top ten
regional universities in the American West. It is the only school in
Oregon to offer a College of Arts & Sciences, a graduate school, and
nationally accredited programs in the schools of business, education,
engineering, and nursing.
About Alacritech
Founded in 1997 by network storage pioneer Larry Boucher and group of
respected storage executives, Alacritech sets new records for the
delivery of increasing amounts of enterprise cloud, video and other rich
application data. The company’s first NFS Acceleration appliance, the
ANX 1500, mitigates Network Attached Storage (NAS) sprawl and
dramatically improves the performance of NFS infrastructures, and does
so without requiring the replacement of existing ecosystems or the
surrender of ownership of mission-critical data. The ANX 1500 pays for
itself faster than any other storage infrastructure solution and
provides by far the lowest cost per operations per second (OPS). The
company holds 54 patents and has received $34 million in funding from
Benchmark Capital, Berkeley International Capital Corporation, Munder
Capital Management, Needham Capital Partners, and Quantum Technology
Ventures. Alacritech can be found at www.alacritech.com,
on Twitter: @Alacritech, Facebook at www.facebook.com/Alacritech
and LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/alacritech.
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