Case Study: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign doubles SQL and Oracle performance with Condusiv DymaxIO

University of Illinois doubles SQL and Oracle performance with Condusiv, cutting processing time to 1 hour 6 minutes

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was experiencing performance degradation in its mission-critical MS-SQL and Oracle databases, even though they were running on all-flash storage arrays. The challenge was caused by Windows Server write inefficiencies that created a surplus of small, fractured I/O operations, which significantly dampened storage performance and quality of service for users.

Condusiv Technologies implemented its DymaxIO I/O transformation software to address the root cause of the issue. The solution streamlined I/O traffic and established a tier-0 caching strategy using available server memory. As a result, the university saw application performance improvements of 50% to 100%, with one specific process completing in a quarter of the time while processing more data. Condusiv's software dramatically increased infrastructure efficiency by offloading I/O from the storage arrays.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign