The Israel Electric Company Adopts Kaminario to Accelerate ERP System Processes by up to 10 Times

The Israel Electric Company (IEC) announced today that it chose Kaminario, a leading supplier of all solid-state SAN storage systems, to provide the Kaminario K2 system for accelerating the response time performance of its central SAP ERP system processes by up to 10 times.

The Electric Company's SAP ERP system serves thousands of users throughout the country and performs dozens of processes, transactions and batch processes. Tens of thousands of transactions are executed in SAP each month. Following complaints regarding slow transaction execution times, the company decided to implement the Kaminario K2 system to accelerate its SAP ERP environment.

As a result, there has been an average of 25 times improvement in all tested transactions, with most of the organization's critical ERP processes accelerated by up to 10 times. The average processing time of SAP's transactions decreased from 600 milliseconds to 400 milliseconds, database processing time was accelerated from 300 milliseconds to 150 milliseconds or less, and the I/O wait time decreased to almost zero, which caused a 700 percent improvement in latency times in the Oracle-based database. In addition, an improvement was achieved in two important ERP array measurements: average response times for DB Request Time and Dialog Step (in the Electric Company, there are about half a million Dialog Steps every day, not including batch) were improved significantly and now take half of the maximal time required by SAP's definitions.

The Kaminario K2 solution, deployed by IEC, is an enterprise-grade all solid-state SAN storage system allowing for very fast access to information as compared to standard disk storage systems.

"These are significant improvements and considerable time savings," said Yosi Shneck, CIO, Israeli Electric Company. "These improvements were achieved with Kaminario's solution operating alongside the existing storage array, without replacing a thing in the infrastructure array."

Schneck continued, "If we multiply tens of thousands of transactions and thousands of users in the company, Kaminario helped us save enormous amounts of time and eliminated unnecessary pressures. Besides the significant speed and response time improvements, we have accomplished additional goals: the system is stable, there are no bottlenecks and there is no need for trying to improve and better the performances."

"Kaminario, with its K2 device, succeeds in accelerating these processes because it succeeded in developing a simple and available technology that overrides the need to work with hard disk drives, which considerably slow down I/O operations. Combining solid-state technology with standard hardware and an innovative operating system makes Kaminario's solution the fastest in the market," stated Oded Nonberg, responsible for IEC's SAP infrastructures.

About Kaminario

Founded by storage experts from EMC, NetApp and IBM, Kaminario is leading the SSD revolution in high performance SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 family of all solid-state SAN storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency to accelerate critical business applications at a significantly lower cost and smaller footprint than legacy SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 is the first enterprise grade SAN storage built from the ground up to take full advantage of modern SSD performance. With built in self-healing high availability, a modular scale-out architecture, open X86 components and media freedom of choice, the K2 consistently delivers ultra-low latency, tens of GB/s of throughput, and millions of IOPS. Kaminario is a fundamentally new and better way to store and retrieve performance sensitive data. Kaminario is simply faster.

Located in Newton, Mass., Kaminario has built a global network of business partners, including Dell Inc., which resells the K2 all solid-state SAN storage. For more information, visit www.kaminario.com.