veloxum corporate introduction for crowdfunder may 29 2012
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Presenters: Kevin Cornell CEOMichael Lazar CTO
May 29, 2012
Company and Product Introduction
Veloxum Corporation – Do not distribute without written authorization.
Veloxum actively and continuously optimizes existing server infrastructure and application settings to
maximize workload density and reduce TCO up to 50%
What We Do
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• Founded in 2009 by a core team from Network Physics, Symphoniq, and Finisar
• V1.0 optimized Microsoft stack (SharePoint, Exchange, Outlook, SQLserver)
• Nominee for Gartner 2012 'cool company' award for Cloud and Infrastructure Management
• Global company: Based in U.S. with resellers in Europe, Australia, Brazil, throughout Asia
• Series A funding from Stage 1 Ventures
FAQs
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Customers Who
Depend Upon Veloxum
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Server environments contain hundreds of interrelated settings, requiring active performance
and capacity tuning; otherwise, workload densities fall and virtualization costs soar
Active Continuous Optimization (ACO)
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Auto-Focus
Auto-Regenerative Braking
Auto-Pilot Auto-Optimization
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Google search yields > 33,000,000 results
Step 1 Gather and correlate data Step 4 Calculate solutionStep 2 Define performance inhibitors Step 5 RemediateStep 3 Root cause Step 6 Test and log
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Numbers for Microsoft Exchange:
115: Settings affecting performance and capacity*
174,900,000+: Settings possibilities
56: Years to test all settings (10 seconds / test)
Settings Nightmare
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* Includes OS and application settings for Microsoft’s Windows, Exchange Server, Global Catalog Server, and Window’s Active Directory Server, as well as VMware ESXi settings and client workstation access settings
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Veloxum’s ACO: What It Does
Collects metrics across the infrastructure to solve capacity and performance issues
Automatically calculates values for hundredsof interrelated settings
Continuously updates settings to maximize performance andcapacity of changing workloads
Veloxum’s ACO: Settings Calculated
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Application specific settings• Exchange• SQLserver• SharePoint
Guest OS settings• Memory• CPU• Network• Storage
HyperVisor/Server Settings• Memory• CPU• Network• Storage
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Veloxum’s ACO: Architecture
Connectors: report metrics & update settings
Management Console: Allows viewing VA metrics & optionally
pushing new settings manually3
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Server: 64-bit VMware virtual appliance collects Connector metrics and pushes new settings
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Defensible Intellectual PropertyVeloxum
Intelligent Performance Tuning Engine Solves inputs from handlers
CPU Storage Network Applications
iPTE Rules Place "Solutions" into Operating Systems and Applications
SERVERS
WORKSTATIONS
BandwidthLatency
Packet LossPacket
Ordering
IOPSLatency
Queue / ConcurrencyiSCSI / Fibre / RAID
Context SwitchQueue
Cache hitsPipleline
Constraints
BuffersThreads
Memory AllocationConfiguration Options
STORAGE NETWORK
Continously optimze based on existing state
Physical System Virtual Systems
iPTE Handlers
iPTE Handlers
iPTE Handlers
iPTE Handlers
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APPLICATIONS
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Collect / Test Analyze
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TUNING AN OPERATING SYSTEM, APPLICATION, OR NETWORK COMPONENTU.S. Application No. 12/ 488,362 International Application No. PCT/ US2009/ 047963
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Solution: Veloxum Automated Optimization
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Microsoft Apps(SharePoint/Exchange/SQL
Server)
Virtualization
• Exchange performance improved by 700%• Reduce Outlook disconnect errors by 75% • SharePoint performance improved by 45%• SQL Server query times decreased by 40%
• Increase capacity of host servers by 30%• Reduce guest CPU Ready by 50%• Reduce host CPU by 30-50%• Reduce I/O latency/Increase I/O throughput• Increase guest throughput by 200% – 800%
Networking Tier One Applications
• LAN throughput improved by 200%–600%• WAN throughput improved by 50%-1300%• iSCSI performance improved by 50%• Reduce “out-of-order” packets by 40%• Reduce packet loss by 40%–60%
• Application optimization modules added as needed
Network Improvement (Guest View)
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Pre-optimization results:
• 18.30 Mbps Upload
• 36.81 Mbps Download
Post-optimization results:
• 102.2 Mbps Upload (5.6x improvement)
• 89.95 Mbps Download (2.4x improvement)
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Veloxum Corporation – Do not distribute without written authorization.
Veloxum Corporation – Do not distribute without written authorization.
“Veloxum both shows me the causes of my VMware settings inefficiencies and, more importantly, implements their necessary fixes. I have no need to hire additional people for an ongoing solution.”
– Gabriel Sandu, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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