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ing expense improvement” within a very short period
of time. But more importantly, users can see an im-
provement in application performance by upwards of
40 percent. And that results in a lot turbocharged ap-
plications.
Based on real-world implementation of research done
by Yemini on Economic Models for Allocating Resourc-
es in Computer Systems, the problem that VMTurbo
solves is a simple one, but as explained by Sachdev,
is complex at scale: “In the modern data center, you
have a great deal of infrastructure that allow you to run
applications,” she begins. “The applications, the life-
blood of most organizations, are really the signals of
demand. So, for example, if your business operates an
e-commerce platform, you’ll see peak demand on days
like Black Friday or Cyber Monday coming in through
application use. It’s crucial to ensure that these appli-
cations have enough infrastructure supply, whether its
memory, CPU, disk space, or network bandwidth, to be
able to respond to this incoming demand.”
Sachdev goes on to explain that over the last two de-
cades, the increased implementation of virtualization
introduced complexity with the increase in scale, mak-
ing it more difficult for companies to manage growing
workload demand. “Virtualization allows those servers
to handle more capacity by abstracting the functional-
ity within the server. It enables you to be more efficient
and to be able to run more workloads on that same ca-
pacity. This introduces a great deal of complexity into
the environment, however. The challenge now is: if you
aren’t able to see the demand coming in, and cannot
relate that demand to your existing supply, you will ex-
perience performance degradation.
“And so, the premise behind VMTurbo is: how do you
keep things in a state of perpetual health? What I
mean by that is, if you could match demand to supply,
in real time, you’re able to assure application perfor-
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
VMTurbo
WHAT:
Maker of an Application Performance Con-
trol System for cloud & virtual environments
WHERE:
Headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts
WEBSITE
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