Fusion-io (News - Alert), a specialist in shared data decentralization, announced that it is enabling an average performance improvement of 800 percent when compared to traditional RAID 5 storage technologies in testing done by the U.S. Navy.

These findings were revealed in a test result carried out by researchers at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) in Charleston, SC. The test results are detailed in a white paper entitled, "Fusion-io ioDrive Performance Testing: A Comparative Study on Storage Performance Improvement using Fusion-io Technology."

"The Navy's test results demonstrate that using storage memory to host an organization's most critical data in the server where it is processed can greatly reduce latency and increase performance," said Fred Vasofsky, Fusion-io vice president of Federal Systems, in a statement.

"We are proud to be working with SSC Atlantic and other areas in the U.S. Department of Defense to reliably decrease the time it takes to turn massive amounts of data into actionable information and help the military continue to achieve its mission by increasing IT performance and reliability while significantly reducing costs.”

Performance improvements and reduced latency are the two key elements that differentiate Fusion-io products from traditional solutions in the market.

"In the field, actionable information must often be determined in mere seconds to guide the outcome of a battle or an appropriate disaster response," said Cary Humphries, Enterprise Systems Engineering, SPAWAR Systems Center, in a statement. "The performance improvements and reduced latency realized in testing with Fusion-io products demonstrate that flash-based technologies could provide significant acceleration for military organizations that require fast access to data."

The benchmark utility established by SSC Atlantic measured a number of factors including Sequential Reading, Sequential Writing, Random Reading and Random Writing and stress testing. The tests revealed that an average performance increase of 800 percent was observed while evaluating database queries using the test utility on a host server with a Fusion ioDrive and a host using a traditional RAID 5 infrastructure.

Both hosts compared by SSC Atlantic ran the Windows 2008 R2 64-bit Datacenter operating system with an Oracle (News - Alert) 11g database.

Recently Fusion-io announced the launch of its ioCache solution customized to deliver Fusion Powered performance for the virtualization of even data-intensive enterprise applications in VMware environments, including environments that use vMotion.

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