Case Study: Lockerz achieves 10x faster database response and 4x faster web performance with SanDisk Fusion ioMemory

Lockerz Captures A Picture Perfect Sql Database

Lockerz, a high‑traffic photo‑sharing site with millions of members and more than 50 million requests a day, faced a critical performance challenge: random read-heavy photo views forced constant disk access while sequential writes blocked reads, and mirrored databases effectively doubled queuing. The result was deep disk queues and slow database response times that threatened site availability, customer experience, and retention.

Lockerz replaced server disk arrays with SanDisk Fusion ioMemory ioDrive cards for its database servers, eliminating the write‑created queuing and dramatically speeding I/O. This cut average disk queue length ~12x, improved database response time ~10x (from ~1s to as low as 10 ms), sped web request responses ~4x, doubled database load capacity, delivered immediate 100% ROI, and improved overall reliability and user experience.

Lockerz

Daniel Marashlian

CTO