Impacting Application Performance Where it Matters: The Top Line

1) What is the opportunity cost of an average downtime trading minute?

2) What is the opportunity cost of a lost trade to the competition?

3) What is at stake? What is the worst case failure scenario?

While engaging a CIO in meaningful conversation on cutting-edge technology at any one of the major Wall Street investment banks, a vendor must necessarily be prepared to propose concise solutions to address these vexing questions.

Do your solutions measure up to the challenge?

1) The cost of an average downtime trading minute could run in the multi-millions of dollars.

2) Investment banks view their IT infrastructure as a competitive weapon. Every millisecond matters when it comes to execution, delivering performance, and maximizing revenue streams.

3) A network-induced application meltdown is any CIO's worst case failure scenario.

As data center applications are distributed and virtualized across clustered compute and storage resource pools, I/O and networking is fast becoming the performance choke point.

Mission-critical applications running on ordinary 10GE switching solutions are getting the short end of the performance stick. Application performance on such networks is at best unpredictable. At its worst, poor performance can lead to a network-induced application meltdown.

What are the core elements to designing a future-proof next generation data center network?