DC400 Case Study - SeFlow

Introduction

This case study of SeFlow is based on survey of Kingston DC400.

“We can rent Dedicated Servers, keeping the same monthly prices of our previous desktop SSD but with the enterprise product.”

“On Cloud we can expand our infrastructure switching from Samsung to DC400 saving 20%”

Challenges

The business challenge that led the and ultimately to select Kingston DC400:

• Product pricing

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Kingston DC400 that the surveyed company uses:

• Uses flash in the following ways at their datacenter:
  • As their primary online storage
  • Tiered with hard drives and SSDs
• Uses flash in the following applications:
  • A SQL database
  • Virtualized servers
  • A software defined storage solution
  • Rent Dedicated Servers to Customers
• Deployed DC400 to:
  • Improve application performance
  • Meet market and customer performance expectations

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Kingston DC400:

• Deployed DC400 to:
  • Improve application performance
  • Meet market and customer performance expectations
• Agreed that disk latency is extremely important to their application.
• Decreased application latency by up to 10% or more since deploying DC400.
• Improved the performance of their application by up to 10% with DC400 when compared to their previous solution.
• Most impactful DC400 attributes for their application:
• The ability to read IOPs
• The ability to write IOPs
• Endurance