Real-world test results prove FlexPod delivers a premier platform for mission-critical performance

iForium and FlexPod

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The Importance

11% 16% 7%PAGE VIEWS

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION CONVERSION

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A 1-second delay in page load time equals 11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction, and 7%

loss in conversions.

- ABERDEEN GROUP STUDY

Cisco and NetApp put the FlexPod Datacenter Microsoft Cloud and SQL Server 2014 through its paces using real-world workloads.

Scalability Experts performance and load testing used actual customer workloads from iForium, a complex and robust mission-critical gaming application.

FlexPod performance project: The Task

The best way to understand how an application and hardware configuration will behave in the real world.

Test are run in an artificial lab environment, but simulate real-world configurations.

In this case, real world workloads from iForium were used.

Load testing

What is a load test?

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FlexPod Datacenter Microsoft Cloud and SQL Server 2014 managed 50,000 concurrent players, 2,400+ slots spins per second, and 500,000 Web API requests per minute.

The results are in…

98% 250%

WORLD-CLASS PERFORMANCE

EASE OF SCALABILITY

300%

OPTIMIZED ACTIVITY

400%

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

LINEAR PROGRESSION RATE FASTER PAGE RESPONSE TIMES PERFORMANCE INCREASE CONCURRENT

CAPACITY GROWTH

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Speed. 250% faster page response times demonstrate world-class performance with room to grow. iForium saw 3X overall performance increases.

What do the results mean?

Flexibility. The test showcases, with 98% linear progression, how small, medium and large enterprise applications can simply be scaled up with addition of new components.

Zero latency. 4X Concurrent Capacity Growth with 0% perceived latency through 40,000 concurrent users with bursts to 50,000 users.

Learn more about how iForium Improved performance by 3x with FlexPod

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