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2013: The Year of the Customer

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2013 has been an amazing year for Proximal Data customers.  Our AutoCache software earned the praise of many satisfied customers and we enhanced the product with new features to make it easier to use. We became an elite member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program, launched version 2.0 of AutoCache and saw the development of new products, features and hypervisor support.

2013 also saw Proximal Data secure another round of funding and establish distribution channels across Europe and North America.  AutoCache was integrated into several large partner solutions and became much easier for customers to acquire.

We are proud of these accomplishments and thankful for the continuing opportunity to solve storage I/O problems affecting datacenter administrators. We at Proximal Data would like to thank our customers and partners for helping to make 2013 such a memorable year.  With your help, we look forward to 2014 being even better.

We would like to start off 2014 with a testimonial from Larry Gonzalez, a datacenter administrator and customer whose feedback has helped us refine AutoCache.

Why we chose AutoCache

When we set up our virtualization cluster at the company, we chose to use NFS for storage. While everything was working as expected we had requests to move other workloads to the cluster, which were bigger and consumed more IOPS.

At that point, we started to have performance issues with the storage. Almost all options to solve our situation required a big investment or change to the storage devices (adding more hardware).

I investigated other options that would allow us to accelerate the storage and improve the performance without investing tons of money in the process. We already had a good storage solution, we just needed to improve the performance, not replace it!

After checking several options, we decided to start testing AutoCache.

The result was mind blowing.

Every single VM that was using AutoCache improved the performance to levels that were even better than what we had expected. We compared VMs that did not have acceleration with AutoCache with the ones that did have it enabled, and the difference was huge.

The cost/benefit of Proximal Data’s AutoCache plus the flexible number of flash or SSD options available to work with it, make this a win/win option that I recommend to anyone who wants to accelerate storage and VMs without going bankrupt in the process.

I’m a very happy customer, and I look forward to continuing to use AutoCache for my current and feature setups.

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