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DataCore Announces UpTempo: Performance Acceleration Software for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Databases, Virtual Servers, Citrix, OLTP, VDI and Other Disk I/O Intensive ApplicationsOctober 2, 2007; 05:21 AM FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida -- Leading storage virtualization vendor DataCore Software today announced that it has released new versions of its UpTempo performance accelerators designed to dramatically boost the performance of Microsoft Windows Server Platforms and their applications. The server versions of UpTempo(tm) can dramatically speed up Microsoft Exchange, SQL Databases, Virtual Servers, Citrix, Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) and other File and Disk I/O Intensive Windows Server Applications. UpTempo dramatically speeds up applications by making the computer system read and write data to its disk drives more efficiently. It does this by overcoming today's biggest performance barrier - data input/output (I/O) bottlenecks resulting from slow, mechanical, disk accesses - the most common cause of server and desktop application underperformance. List prices for UpTempo start at $49 for XP systems and $498 for Windows 2003 Server systems. Trial software is available for download at www.datacore.com/download.asp. According to George Teixeira, CEO and president, DataCore Software, "Time is money and UpTempo can save you time! UpTempo software adds intelligence and predictive, self-learning caching algorithms to speed up workloads and maximize I/O throughput. UpTempo improves response times, maximizes system utilization and dramatically enhances user productivity providing a high Return on Investment (ROI)." The server performance problem and the widening I/O gap CPU advances have followed Moore's law for many years - now roughly doubling in speed every 18 months. Memory technologies have gained ground almost as quickly. In sharp contrast, hard drives have taken over 10 years to double in speed. This widening gap in performance makes the rotational and seek time latency of hard drives the biggest performance bottleneck in modern computers. What is Uptempo? - Advanced disk block cache, a sophisticated "virtual" I/O controller that sits below the file system - An I/O scheduler - A combination of very advanced mechanisms for increasing the performance of local I/O - A set of predictive self learning and workload aware algorithms - A general schema for reducing exception overhead for disk I/O - Software that sits 'below' the Windows file system and improves its performance - Simple-to-use and automated software, requiring no application knowledge from the user How much does UpTempo help? Mileage may vary! But, speed ups by a factor of 3 to 4x I/O performance (and sometimes 10x or more) are not uncommon. It depends on how much applications are constrained by I/O bottlenecks. Check out the results from a number of benchmarks ( http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_UpTempo_benchmarks.asp). Seeing is believing - take a free test drive! Click here to download: http://www.datacore.com/download.asp. What types of Windows platforms and applications will benefit from UpTempo performance acceleration? Most systems today are bottlenecked by I/O and the more tasks and the more disks you have running the more you can gain from UpTempo. Computers are general purpose in nature and therefore workloads constantly change. UpTempo shines in larger multi-user, multi-disk environments. With more traffic there is more congestion and therefore more opportunity for UpTempo to break the bottlenecks and accelerate the I/O. One might not be bottlenecked on I/O during a particular instance of time - but due to changing workloads and usage rates, one likely will be now or later. That's when UpTempo's performance boost really saves the day. UpTempo's ability to remove I/O bottlenecks improves performance throughout, but the value is even more significant during peak loads on applications such as:
Performance bottlenecked? Is your disk activity light blinking? UpTempo's powerful disk cache helps optimize system resource utilization by applying processor and memory resources to the I/O bottleneck problem. Learn More Additional Information Also, please see the mention on page 12 of DataCore in the VDI report titled "VDI: A New Desktop Strategy - A Guide to Managing User Desktop Environments with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure." The full VDI report may be accessed on the VMware web site at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vdi_strategy.pdf. An out-take from report follows: "Block caching using tools such as UpTempo allocates a preset amount of memory to storing data blocks requested by the file system. Pre-fetching of data block based on usage patterns further accelerates data access. Writes can be written to memory and flushed to disk periodically for improved performance." About DataCore Software DataCore, the DataCore logo, SANsymphony and SANmelody, are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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