Sega Networks Adopts PernixData FVP Software

PernixData, Inc. announced that SEGA Networks Co., Ltd will adopt its FVP software to accelerate storage performance of its gaming service platform.

By removing storage performance bottlenecks, FVP will enable SEGA to better handle player information and support playing devices like smart phones and tablets.

“We appreciate the ability to de-couple storage performance from capacity using PernixData FVP software,” said Kyohei Aso, IT management, SEGA Networks. “This not only delivers to the best performance for our applications, but it helps us substantially reduce storage costs by consolidating servers and avoiding unnecessary storage purchases.“

SEGA Networks relies on vSphere to ensure the reliability and stability of its gaming service platform system. This enables them to consolidate complex MySQL databases, reducing the number of physical servers in their environment. However, the company was concerned that storage read and write bottlenecks would hamper the performance of their virtualized databases.

SEGA Networks turned to FVP software to solve their virtualized database performance challenges. FVP virtualizes flash and RAM across servers to create a clustered pool of high-speed resources that accelerate reads and writes to shared storage. By putting storage intelligence into servers, PernixData FVP decouples storage performance from storage capacity for faster virtualized applications, unlimited IO/s (where and when they are needed), and 90% lower storage costs.

“The most impressive part of FVP is its unique ability to accelerate both read and write traffic“, said Kyosuke Watanabe, director of IT management, SEGA Networks. “As 80% of our database traffic is composed of writes, a read-only solutions was not suitable for our environment.“

With PernixData in place, SEGA Networks estimates they will be able to migrate at least 80% of their MySQL databases from physical to virtual.

Other anticipated benefits of PernixData FVP include:

• 50% overall improvement in database performance (i.e. R/W latency)
• The ability to cost effectively scale-out storage performance as additional servers are introduced
• Major cost savings with the ability to de-couple storage performance and capacity
• Tight integration with VMware environment and the ability to give customers confidence that their software can be deployed in all modern vSphere environments, using the familiar tools and procedures to which they are accustomed.

The SEGA Networks deal was sold in conjunction with Networld Corporation, PernixData’s IT infrastructure solution distributor in Japan.

“We continue to see very strong demand for decoupled storage architectures in the Japanese market,” said Shoichi Morita, CEO, Networld Corporation. “As SEGA Networks demonstrates, there is a huge opportunity for PernixData FVP to change how Japanese companies deliver and manage strategic applications like virtualized databases.“

“PernixData is consistently chosen by marquis enterprises as a fast, reliable and cost effective way to virtualize more databases by eliminating storage performance bottlenecks,” said Jeff Aaron, VP marketing, PernixData. “We are pleased to be chosen by such a prestigious company as a key enabler for their core business initiatives.“