HOPKINTON, Mass., March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The adage that time
is money is more than just a saying. Whether you're using your
credit card at rush hour, changing a flight minutes before take-off
or buying a stock at the market's opening bell, mere fractions of a
second can make a significant financial difference – microseconds
can equal millions. At EMC, we store and protect data associated
with billions of mainframe transactions a day1 that
serve-up your banking, insurance, reservation, investment and other
data, and we're making these transactions even faster with zBoost
technology which can significantly improve performance.
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zBoost is a free software-only enhancement for VMAX systems. It
delivers up to a blazingly fast 60% performance
improvement2 and up to 40% lower2 response
time for mainframe workloads. zBoost also can improve the response
time of VMAX across a wide variety of mainframe workloads.
zBoost achieves these significant improvements by leveraging
VMAX's multicore engines with SMT2 (Simultaneous Multi-Threading)
technology as well as 100% zHPF (System z High Performance FICON)
functionality. zBoost has the intelligence to reallocate cores of
the of the processors within the VMAX's engines to the FICON
connection workloads, "boosting" FICON performance. As a
result, compared to non-zBoost VMAX systems, VMAX 20K and 40K
mainframe storage systems with zBoost can support significantly
more I/O per processor engine or require less engines for same I/O
workload, potentially saving physical space and energy.
In the graph below, we've compared the throughput of a single
FICON channel with and without zBoost to illustrate just how
dramatic this performance improvement can be:
zBoost's I/O response rate benefits can be seen below in this
graph of a VMAX 40K workload. Response time improvement varies by
workload and can be significant.
zBoost technology does not require any application or hardware
changes to your existing VMAX mainframe systems.
zBoost technology is a nocharge upgrade for existing and new
VMAX 40K and 20K mainframe customers and is non-disruptively
installable. zBoost complements the VMAX's industry-leading
reliability and availability as well, helping you leverage your
investment in the world's premier storage system for the
enterprise.
1 estimate based on
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2 as compared to non-zBoost VMAX DASD performance
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