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Application Workloads: Achieving Peak Performance
HOW DATA DRIVES SUCCESS
Fast Application Performance is Key to Business Success
Every day, applications within an enterprise are constantly changing, requiring businesses to be agile decision-makers. They need to provision IT resources quickly to meet application demands, when and where they are required. The ability to react to the expanding diversity of big and fast data applications is vital; and requires the allocation of more compute, storage, and network resources at scale, and in real time, across the enterprise.
That’s why analysis has become an important part of data capture, enabling organizations to extract insights that could lead to better business decisions, efficiencies in productivity and automation, or unexpected value.
11% in 2018
Enterprise software spending will increase over 11% in 2018 and is expected to generate over $391 billion in revenue1
$22.8B in 2020
Global software business intelligence (BI) and analytics markets are forecast to reach $22.8 billion in revenue in 2020, up from $18.3 billion in 20173
The emergence of Fast Data and computations at the edge creates a factual consequence that moving all of the data back and forth to the cloud for computational analysis is not very efficient. . . . As such, each added edge device brings an incremental increase in the computational power required. Optimization on how and when the data moves is a key factor in the scalability of new architectures.
SOURCE: A NEW ERA OF STORAGE: OPEN COMPUTE WITH RISC-V AND MEMORY FABRICS BY DR. ZVONIMIR BANDIC, WESTERN DIGITAL (EMBEDDED COMPUTING DESIGN, 2/21/18)
OPTIMIZING APPLICATION WORKLOADS
Scaling for Success
As big data and fast data applications proliferate, they are breaking the boundaries of traditional infrastructures. The 'general-purpose' technologies that have served us so well in the past are reaching their limits of scalability, performance, and efficiency. When data-intensive workloads are supported by these architectures, a uniform ratio of resources are used for all compute processing, storage, and network bandwidth requirements. This ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach is not effective for these diverse, data-intensive workloads.
What is required for today’s data-centric architectures are capabilities that enable more control over the blend of resources that each application needs; so that optimized levels of processing, storage, and network bandwidth can be scaled independent of one another to meet specific application needs.
DATA ACCELERATES BUSINESS
Western Digital Offers a Portfolio of Products Designed to Accelerate Application Workloads
Oracle MySQL
ORACLE MYSQL
Power the Database that Powers the Internet
Data is an invaluable asset that grows with your business. Not only is Oracle® MySQL™ the most popular open-source relational database for keeping that data for web applications, it also powers many Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) workloads. While it is relatively simple to implement and deploy, achieving the highest performance and best business results requires the power of flash technologies.
SOLUTIONS FOR MYSQL
MySQL databases are critical business components that directly impacts the bottom line. Scale up performance and lower latency with ultra-fast local SSDs.
Scale-Up and Scale-Out Oracle MySQL Databases
While it is relatively simple to implement and deploy, achieving the highest performance and best business results requires the power of Western Digital Flash-based technologies.
SAP HANA
SAP HANA
Accelerate Business Operations with SAP HANA
SAP HANA® software and services are the lifeblood of many businesses performing a wide variety of analytical and transactional operations at the core of the organization. However, the performance of SAP HANA is often tied to its underlying storage infrastructure. This infrastructure should enable SAP HANA to thrive by accelerating transactions, simplifying workflows and reducing costs.
Solutions for SAP HANA
Running business-critical SAP HANA applications on Western Digital NVMe storage provides immediate and obvious performance improvement while introducing a whole host of operational, management and data protection benefits.
Make Your Business Thrive with a Modern SAP HANA® Storage Infrastructure
Western Digital storage solutions for SAP provide immediate performance improvements which improve end-user experiences, increase productivity and reduce storage costs for business intelligence and analytics workloads.
Microsoft SQL Server
MICROSOFT SQL SERVER
Getting the Most from Your SQL Server Datastores
Your business depends on mission-critical databases running Microsoft® SQL Server®. Database administrators need to provide appropriate performance, capacity, and reliability to ensure your business can operate efficiently. Our high-performance SSDs and flash arrays empower you to increase query performance, provide needed capacity, and ensure reliability, simply and cost effectively. Plus, you’ll need fewer database servers which reduces your database licensing expense.
SOLUTIONS FOR MICROSOFT SQL SERVER
Our storage solutions enable SQL Server Databases and applications to thrive. They drive better business outcomes by reducing cost, increasing efficiency, and streamlining your SQL Server data center, optimizing your systems for productivity and growth.
Boost SQL Server® Performance with NVMe-oF™ Shared Storage
Leveraging the shared performance of the OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF Storage Platform can drive better business outcomes by reducing cost, increasing efficiency and streamlining your SQL Server data center.
Oracle Database And Oracle Rac
ORACLE® DATABASE AND ORACLE RAC
Maximizing Oracle Database and Oracle RAC
Leading insurance carriers are addressing the need for greater holistic customer insights, optimized processes, and enhanced client reach through direct and indirect channels. To deliver a personalized service and reach customers in the way they choose, they need the right infrastructure. This infrastructure should unify data, applications, analytics, and human expertise along with a streamlined agent/broker network process that delivers personalized sales, underwriting, and claims service, while simplifying operations and safeguarding privacy and security.
SOLUTIONS FOR ORACLE DATABASE AND ORACLE RAC
Our storage solutions can drive performance improvements in Oracle deployments and make existing processes faster and less intrusive. Not only can they reduce costs but they can open up new business opportunities and help ensure that existing relationships are not lost due to slow database operations.
Optimize Performance in Oracle Environments with Flash Memory
Enterprise-class Ultrastar NVMe and SAS SSDs can help address Oracle Database and Oracle RAC performance challenges, including OLTP, operational data stores, data warehousing, OLAP and backups.
INDUSTRY EXPERTS AGREE
Data Centers are under increasing pressure to build infrastructures that are responsive to the application workloads of the organization. Understanding what a workload is and what its characteristics are is critical to creating a responsive infrastructure that can satisfy the variety of demands being placed on IT by an organization’s customers, users and application owners…
The ability to capture workload I/O characteristics, analyze that data and regenerate it is a critical capability for data centers to master. Workload profiling enables organizations to troubleshoot and optimize their current environment as well as plan, for the future.
SOURCE: WHAT ARE WORKLOADS AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE BY GEORGE CRUMP (STORAGE SWITZERLAND, 12/2/15)
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1. Source: Enterprise-Software Spending to Surge 11%: Gartner by Jon Swartz (Barron’s quoted Gartner, 4/9/18) 2. Source: Mobile App Usage - Statistics & Facts, Statista 3. Source: Gartner Says Worldwide Business Intelligence and Analytics Market to Reach $18.3 Billion in 2017, Press Release by Gartner 2/17/17)
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