DynamiX Introduces Series of Storage Solutions 

Load DynamiX, formerly SwiftTest, today announced the release of the industry’s first series of solutions focused on validating the performance of enterprise storage infrastructure. The Load DynamiX Workload Insight Manager and performance validation appliances enable IT architects to match performance requirements with storage investments and dramatically reduce storage costs. The new solutions align with the evolution and renaming of the company, announced earlier today, as the company extends its performance validation solutions to enterprises and service providers.

Data storage is growing at a rate of 30-50% per year and storage-related expenditures to support this growth are fast approaching 40% of the typical global 1000 IT infrastructure budget. As more applications are deployed in big data, virtualized and cloud environments, application workloads are increasing in complexity. Users are accessing data in new, more dynamic ways--at unpredictable times--which is causing ‘workload drift’ and demand spikes. Solutions that understand and can model these traffic patterns and predict response times will be essential to ensuring business-critical application performance under worst-case conditions.

“Successful storage deployments require a thorough understanding of application workloads. With deep insight into these workloads, IT organizations can make optimal decisions on storage architecture, technologies, products, and configurations and reduce the risks associated with infrastructure changes,” said Philippe Vincent, president and CEO of Load DynamiX. “Our new workload modeling and storage performance validation solutions are designed to address these challenges.”

The new Load DynamiX Workload Insight Manager provides detailed analysis of production application workloads including a full command mix, file size, and block size distribution. It uses a web-based GUI to create workload scenarios that can be run on purpose-built high-performance load generation appliances. A new visual testbed interface enables easy test configuration, automated running of simulations, and a shared library for multiple users to collaborate across the enterprise.

Load DynamiX also released its first generation of performance validation appliances, the Load DynamiX Series, specifically designed for enterprise IT organizations. These appliances are capable of generating massive loads to stress the highest performance enterprise storage systems to their limits. The four new models include:

• Load DynamiX 10G Base Series: Includes two 10G Ethernet ports, Workload Insight Manager and support for iSCSI, NFS v2/v3, SMB 2 protocol emulation.
• Load DynamiX 10G Advanced Series: Adds additional support for NFS v4, SMB 3, HTTP/S, CDMI, and OpenStack Swift protocol emulation to the Base Series.
• Load DynamiX FC Series: Includes two 4/8Gbit Fibre Channel ports, Workload Insight Manager and support for FC and SCSI protocol emulation.
• Load DynamiX Unified Series: Includes two 10G Ethernet ports and two 4/8Gbit Fibre Channel ports, Workload Insight Manager and support for iSCSI, NFS v2/v3, SMB2, Fibre Channel and SCSI protocol emulation.