Delphix and Pure Storage team

Delphix + Pure Storage: Powering the All-Flash Enterprise
Many enterprises struggle with database performance limiting their business processes. When it comes to database development, the large and complex landscape of databases within an enterprise can cripple the productivity of the very developers who can solve these problems. Delphix’s database virtualisation technology together with Pure Storage’s cost-effective, high-performance all-flash storage arrays now make it possible for enterprises to move their entire database landscape to flash at one-tenth the cost of equivalent disk-based solutions, with no performance tradeoff.
“When you virtualise a database, you create a highly random IO stream to the storage that brings mechanical disk arrays to their knees,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP Products, Pure Storage. “Used in combination with the Pure Storage FlashArray, which thrives on random IO, and our inline deduplication technology, virtualised databases produced by Delphix can now consume very little space and still have plenty of IO headroom.”

A recent benchmark test conducted by Delphix and Pure Storage confirmed that their joint solution offers 10x improvements in price and performance when compared to a disk-based storage array from a leading legacy storage vendor. The companies successfully created and maintained the concurrent operation of 26 virtual database copies, each 1 terabyte (TB) in size, on the Pure Storage FlashArray. The combined solution performed over 35,000 transactions per minute, while consuming only 1.5 TB of total storage; the combined solution can sustain more than 900,000 transactions per minute with zero performance impact. By comparison, running the same databases on the leading legacy disk-based storage array to achieve the same performance and availability required over 15x the storage at 10x the cost.

“Databases are critical to every enterprise,” said Rick Caccia, VP Marketing, Delphix. “Customers can now move every database copy in their data centre to all-flash and still cut a zero from their bill, courtesy of Delphix and Pure Storage.”

“As a Delphix customer for several years, our company has enjoyed significant agility gains across our key database applications,” said Bryan Wise, Senior Director of IT at a global high-tech manufacturer. “Now, by combining Delphix and Pure Storage in our data centre, we have connected that agility to greater storage performance and efficiencies that have prepared our architecture for the future.”