Case Study: SparkPeople eliminates bottlenecks and trims four hours per week from heavy workload with Dell/EMC SAN Storage Solution
Online dieting website SparkPeople.com sought to eliminate its storage I/O bottleneck to give customers fast, simplified access to their information from its database-powered Web site, and ensure that the next busy season would pose no scalability problems. The company redeployed three databases on a new Dell/EMC storage array along with Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers to host Web applications.
Benefits achieved:
- Maintained 99.99% availability
- Eliminated I/O bottlenecks
- 2 hours per week of troubleshooting eliminated
- 2 hours per week of backup time eliminated
- And more