Kaminario, a leading provider of high performance, all solid-state Flash and DRAM SAN storage solutions, today announced a new video, How to Achieve Maximum Database Performance with SSD SAN Storage, featuring solutions consultant Kevin Colton. In the video, Colton discusses the challenges companies face with maintaining database performance and how the Kaminario K2 Flash and DRAM SSD shared storage system maximizes Oracle, SQL Server and other databases’ performance by eliminating I/O bottlenecks, reducing latency and increasing throughput.

Colton relates the typical tuning challenges he faced when he was a systems engineer and Oracle DBA before joining Kaminario. He would take a number of approaches when tuning an Oracle application for better performance, but after all that effort, he would find the application was still not achieving the performance expected.

Colton points out:

“Even after doing all that tuning, if I/O was the bottleneck and the underlying storage system was simply unable to provide the IOPS, throughput and latency the application required, all the tuning in the world wouldn’t solve the performance problems.”

Colton shows how adding a Kaminario K2 all solid-state SAN storage appliance and combining it with an Oracle database enabled one company to realize immediate and dramatic performance improvements with its database application. Installing the K2 involved just copying the data and did not require any modifications to the application, database or server. Immediately, the user I/O wait dropped from 6 to 0 milliseconds, which actually amounted to sub-milliseconds.

Kaminario provides complimentary database performance analyses of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases. The analysis allows IT, application and database administrators to better understand the causes of their database performance bottlenecks and the potential resolutions.

Colton concludes:

“By simply changing the back-end storage device to the K2, and without making any changes to the application, database or server, the company was able to see immediate and significant improvement in the overall performance of the application. The end-users and the batch jobs and reports originating from this application experienced immediate improvement, and the company saw dramatic business improvement because this was a mission-critical application.”

Colton joined Kaminario with over 13 years’ experience in application performance management as director of systems engineering at Precise Software. Prior to that, he spent seven years as an Oracle DBA at a large multinational insurance company.

To view the five-minute Kaminario video with solutions consultant Kevin Colton, go to http://www.kaminario.com/Resources/Videos/.

About Kaminario

Founded by storage experts from EMC, NetApp and IBM, Kaminario is leading the Flash and DRAM SSD revolution in high performance SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 family of all solid-state SAN storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency to accelerate critical business applications at a significantly lower cost and smaller footprint than legacy SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 is the first enterprise-grade SAN storage built from the ground up to take full advantage of modern Flash and DRAM SSD performance. With built-in self-healing high availability, a modular scale-out architecture, open X86 components and media freedom of choice, the K2 consistently delivers ultra-low latency, tens of GB/s of throughput and millions of IOPS. Kaminario is a fundamentally new and better way to store and retrieve performance-sensitive data. Kaminario is simply faster.

Located in Newton, Mass., Kaminario has built a global network of business partners, including Dell Inc., which resells the K2 all solid-state SAN storage. For more information, visit www.kaminario.com.