Test of Fusion ioDrive SSD with Statistica Software

Fusion-io announced that StatSoft, Inc. provider of data analysis, data management, data visualization and data mining technologies, recently tested Fusion’s ioMemory platform with its STATISTICA software, comparing Fusion ioDrives to disk-based storage components.

The StatSoft white paper concluded that Fusion ioDrives significantly increased the I/O performance in the STATISTICA suite of analytics software products and solutions, increasing CPU utilization and efficiency. With ioMemory, StatSoft achieved 300 and 500 percent data performance and latency reduction improvements when compared to legacy disk-based storage. With the increased I/O performance enabled by the Fusion ioDrives, CPU utilization increased to 90 percent in tests of large data sets, versus the 32 percent CPU utilization observed with the disk-based technology.

"Our global client base shares a common need for the fastest possible data access in order to perform analyses that drive business-critical decisions," said George Butler, Vice President, Platform Development, StatSoft. "STATISTICA is already among the fastest data analysis software tools on the market. With the Fusion-io memory platform, STATISTICA customers can analyze information from even the largest data sets more quickly than ever before through a solution that greatly improves the efficiency of their current infrastructure."

STATISTICA is used as an integral component of corporate computer infrastructures to boost productivity and the bottom line, to increase safety, reduce industrial pollution and develop environmental solutions. The STATISTICA product line and its scalable, fully web-enabled distributed processing systems are utilized in more than 60 countries in numerous languages. STATISTICA’s 600,000 end users include global corporations in verticals such as manufacturing, power generation, semiconductors, pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical, food processing, automotive, heavy equipment, insurance, telecom, R&D and more.

"Few enterprises today have the luxury of wasting capital to build and run an enormous, inefficient storage system," said Neil Carson, Fusion-io Chief Technology Officer. "Seeking an intelligently simple solution, StatSoft’s forward-thinking engineers have found a way to deliver data to their customers even faster by boosting the efficiency of their current infrastructures. The StatSoft white paper clearly demonstrates the potential for Fusion ioMemory to unlock hidden value by reducing the I/O bottleneck to put idle CPUs to work."

STATISTICA is optimized for processing large amounts of data, so quick access to stored data is essential. Whether processing a large STATISTICA Spreadsheet in read-only mode for analysis, or creating temporary objects during data management operations, storage performance and latency directly affects application performance.

StatSoft tested the ioDrives in two categories: Extensive Temp directory access and analyzing large spreadsheets. In real-world scenarios accessing Temp directories, Fusion-io enabled performance improvements three times greater than traditional disks. In analyzing large spreadsheets, Fusion’s technology produced five times the performance of disk-based storage.

To review the StatSoft white paper STATISTICA Performance with Fusion-io ioDrive