Case Study: Cybersecurity and Risk Management Company achieves increased server/VM density and rapid, repeatable flash vs. hybrid storage testing with Virtana Storage Load Testing

Cybersecurity and Risk Management Company uses Virtana Storage Load Testing to determine the best flash and hybrid storage solution

Cybersecurity and Risk Management Company, a global cloud-native managed detection and response provider protecting more than 2,000 companies in over 40 countries, needed to optimize infrastructure costs and VM density across five data centers (over 3 PB of storage and 5,000 VMs). Pre-production storage load testing in a highly virtualized, mixed-workload environment was a major challenge, so they turned to Virtana and its Virtana Storage Load Testing product to simulate thousands of VMs and realistic blended I/O patterns.

Virtana’s Storage Load Testing let the team drive storage arrays through the full stack, run repeatable apples-to-apples comparisons and simulate thousands of VMs with just a few settings. Using Virtana, they evaluated five different flash and hybrid arrays in under 30 days, gained accurate sizing/configuration guidance, and increased server/VM density without raising performance risk — turning test results into a reusable company asset for ongoing validation.