Case Study: American Multinational Semiconductor and Telecommunications Equipment Company achieves accurate, lower-cost storage performance validation with Virtana Storage Load Testing

Semiconductor and Telecommunications Company accelerates development and productivity at significantly lower costs using Virtana Storage Load Testing

The American Multinational Semiconductor and Telecommunications Equipment Company, which designs and markets wireless telecommunications products, needed to replace Oracle ZFS appliances used as scratch space for its engineering and development centers and ensure the new storage significantly outperformed the legacy platform for very high‑IOPS, high‑throughput workloads prior to tape‑out. To validate options and avoid vendor specmanship, the company engaged Virtana and its Virtana Storage Load Testing (SLT) solution to verify performance without relying solely on live production systems.

Virtana used SLT (formerly WorkloadWisdom) with the Workload Data Importer and a 40Gbe NAS workload generator, capturing real production workload profiles and running more than 500 tests during a six‑week testing phase within a six‑month evaluation. All three test methodologies produced the same conclusions, giving the company confidence to standardize on Virtana SLT, eliminate vendor guessing, shift more time to testing (instead of setup), and realize substantial financial and time savings while accelerating development and more accurately sizing future storage.