SQL

Microsoft^® SQL Server is a key application within many organizations with significant performance requirements

Network Performance

Today’s enterprises depend on databases to support their business-critical operations. SQL is increasingly used to manage a variety of data sources including enterprise applications, websites, and customer and product information. As more and more clients access the database, the server can become overwhelmed with network requests and result in increased latency. Finding a solution that manages network traffic in order to maximize client response times becomes critical. The common solution has been to add additional servers. This solution, while effective at solving one problem, can create a new set of challenges. Adding servers means incremental costs, in terms of server hardware, software licensing, disk storage, administration, and additional power and cooling.

Alacritech^® Scalable Network Accelerators™ can help avoid the complexity and costs associated with adding additional servers. By offloading the processing of network traffic, Alacritech Accelerators allow the host CPU to focus on running applications instead of network processing. The servers are now able to support additional clients on the network, eliminating the immediate need to add more servers to deliver the same performance.

Remote Mirroring

Due to the critical importance of SQL, many organizations have implemented a remote mirroring policy to improve availability. Unfortunately, this effort to maintain availability can adversely affect performance. Latency can have a significant impact on database performance when waiting for the remote site to acknowledge that data has been successfully mirrored. Alacritech Acclerators can reduce or eliminate the latency issue and improve overall performance.

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