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Products | UpTempo Performance Acceleration Software

Accelerating Rich Media Applications - Interactive Simulations/Video/Graphics/Pre-Press/Imaging Systems/Web Content and Design
Pictures, music, video, words; content makes the world go around.
Interactive role playing and SIM games, video and film, muti-media, graphics, image management, pre-press production, scenario simulations are all forms of high-resolution digital content that require not only larger amounts of storage capacity but higher levels of performance to process these digital assets. Slow disk I/O impacts response times, number of stalls, user productivity and the overall satisfaction level of game playing, running and setting up simulation scenarios, building and displaying complex web designs, producing interactive videos, facilitating the creative process of design, and the process of editing, archiving, and distributing digital content.

The migration to high-definition formats, increasingly elaborate special effects, and rapid adoption of digital technologies, push multi-media and entertainment oriented applications to push the limits of technology. The latest technology innovations seek to simplify and centralize systems and storage, but they wind up exposing previously hidden bottlenecks -typically related to I/O. Modern applications are attempting to push the boundaries only to find that the platforms supporting the applications are a hindrance. Typically, the storage subsystems just can't keep up with the processing. UpTempo closes the gap and does a great job of feeding I/O to processors thereby improving overall utilization rates, speeding up applications and smoothing out the speed bumps that hinder the user experience of these types of applications.

Multi-media broadcasts, video, music, movies and interactive games being accessed by multiple users is not an easy task, challenges include:

High number of concurrent users. Many video and rich media applications are designed to meet the needs of multiple users - workgroups, teams, hotels, subdivisions and entire cities. In these cases, one is likely to see periods where there is a high number of concurrent users.
Random content access. Video streaming is when large block of sequential data (ie, movies) are being accessed, often many at once. Caching and prefetching these large blocks greatly improves the performance and more importantly allows users to better deal with random events - start, stop, pause, rewind, and fast-forward stream content. Add in concurrent users and the activity to access the streams becomes random. This is where most video and rich media applications slow down, get stalls or fall apart.

Time and again, disk I/O is a primary performance bottleneck of these types of systems. In rich media, content creation and delivery, modeling, rendering, and publishing, and video applications, large block, sequential I/O is often the norm and to achieve optimal performance a sophisticated cache that can manage large blocks can deliver dramatic performance improvements.

UpTempo is intelligent enough to see the traffic patterns and workflow and adjust, optimize and tune the cache algorithms to manage large block I/O requests and just as importantly handle multiple stream requests.

For disk-bound applications, DataCore UpTempo can self adjust to handle small block and large block I/O streams to improve overall disk performance.

Users can't tolerate delays, UpTempo's predictive intelligence works to ensure that the data has been pre-read before you've even asked for it.

Use DataCore's UpTempo to boost Disk I/O performance
When disk I/O bottlenecks limit system performance, other system resources wait idly by. By putting these resources to work, system performance is improved. UpTempo's powerful disk cache help optimize system resource utilization by applying processor and memory resources to the I/O bottleneck problem.

The UpTempo block-level cache assesses your workload I/O patterns and optimizes the flow of I/O traffic between memory and disk locations. Inserted into the path of the I/O subsystem, it learns to cache the most active read/write disk I/O. With UpTempo enabled the cache technology reduces context switching, enhances server response and results in a much more satisfying and productive user experience.

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