ION: Worldwide Need, Horizontal Appeal

ION Data Accelerator Across Industries

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ION Customer Characteristics


  • Existing SAN user
  • Enterprise database user
    • Primarily Oracle and RAC, plus Microsoft SQL Server
  • Departure from exclusively using centralized SAN
    • Shared storage disaggregation for performance and simplicity
    • Applications and networks must not change

Travel and Tourism



  • Leading transaction processor
  • OLTP on Oracle RAC, 2PB and growing
  • ION Data Accelerator for Redo Logs
  • Hundreds of servers, TBs of storage/quarter
    • Most bought for performance not capacity
  • Now moving some databases entirely to ION
  • Chose ION for flexibility, performance, cost
  • Partnership with HP

Media Entertainment



  • Global media and entertainment company
  • ION for Microsoft SQL Server tables
  • Purchased without evaluation
  • Media assets management
  • Dramatic performance up to 25x

Healthcare



  • Large healthcare and teaching hospital
  • ION for electronic patient records in EPIC
  • Required "Google Speed"
  • Dell Partnership for custumer satisfaction
  • Ease of installation won the deal

Retail: Drugstores



  • Large drugstore chain
    • 7000 stores, $6 Billion in sales
  • ION consolidates 4000 virtual desktops
  • Ecommerce and call center deployments
  • Dramatic storage hardware reduction
    • Faster desktop-performance
    • Lower power consumption
    • Less service-cost

Retail: Grocery Stores



  • Large grocery chain
  • Numerous flash evaluations over 9 months
  • ION reconciles all point of sale transactions
  • Partnership with HP

Manufacturing




  • World's largest air conditioning manufacturer
    • >$20 Billion revenue
  • Moved entire Oracle RAC to ION
  • Absolute, highest performance required
  • Custumer Quote:
    • "only ION could meet our performance needs"

    Banking



    • Leading global bank
    • Evaluated ION for 1 year
    • ION for SAS data analytics
    • Absolute lowest latency was required

    Energy



    • Large US power company
    • Poor performance of prior all flash system
    • Strict performance threshold
    • SQL Server supporting SAP
    • ION easily met criteria

    Security and Fraud Detection



    • Retail big date analytics in SQL Server
    • Analytics from cash registers, returns, inventory, ID checks identify and flag fraud
    • ION Benefits:
      • Consolidate hardware
      • Accelerate software
      • Process more data
      • Identify risks faster and more accurately

    Ship Building



    • Top 5 global shipbuilder
    • ION for Oracle PLM core database
      • Encrypted data for 300,000 ship parts in ION
      • Created 3D models in 15 seconds
    • Enormous database hardware consolidated
      • Fewer CPU deliver
      • Faster results from
      • Less expensive storage

    Advertising



    • Large online advertising analytics provider
      • Ads placement, prices, effectiveness
    • Sizable Oracle database migration to ION
      • Two sites
    • Partnership with HP
    • Trusted Fusion-io technology based on past experience


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