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Products | UpTempo Performance Acceleration Software |
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DataCore Revs Up Apps
By Mario Apicella - senior analyst of the InfoWorld Test Center. Read article and report
"With UpTempo caching, its performance numbers almost ran off the chart, leaving the benchmark's set of reference drives in the dust. (Follow the red line on the chart.) Comparing the results I obtained on the same machine without UpTempo, the caching sped up my drive by a factor of almost 15, which seems too good to be true and probably is. In fact, DataCore suggests that the speed boost will most commonly fall in the 3X to 4X range, although better results are also possible.
How does UpTempo perform?
- The best way is to download a copy and try it for yourself in your own environment.
- You can conduct "simple time tests".
- You can run benchmark suites and mixes that simulate business, database, web, and video server workloads (e.g., IOmeter Test Suite, available at www.iometer.org).
Specific benchmarks are always open to debate. Therefore, below are a series of industry benchmarks and simulated mixes covering a range of workloads. As a whole, they represent a much better indicator of relative performance improvements than any single benchmark.
| SQL DataBase I/O Benchmark |
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| Ziff-Davis WinBench (e.g. Visual C++, Photoshop, FrontPage) |
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| NetApps' PostMark vs. Windows |
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| Low Level I/O - Sequential Reads |
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| Low Level I/O - Sequential Writes |
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| PassMark Index |
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Simple Timed Performance Tests – "Watch the clock”
"As a home user, I could tell UpTempo was working, but I wanted to see how much of a difference it made and I didn’t have time to run elaborate benchmarks. So I tried 2 simple tests:
Test 1 - Before I installed UpTempo, I opened up a large PowerPoint slide set, a large PDF doc, a game and a Photo. Got out my stopwatch and timed how long it took to open each and marked down the times. Then, clicked UpTempo Read cache on and repeated the process a couple of times and timed each open again.
Test 2 - Ran the virus scanner on my largest disk drive - timed it without UpTempo, then with UpTempo turned on to Read only mode.
Compared the results – got better than twice the performance."
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