Success of Isima's Z3 VM: 10X Throughput, Half Cost

Isima’s experiment with Z3 virtual machines for e-commerce yielded a price-performance ratio of two times and a throughput of ten times

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They also require regular maintenance so that data is safeguarded in the case of an interruption

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One of the first companies to test it was the Silicon Valley company and e-commerce analytics cloud, Isima

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Google Cloud compares Z3 to N2 VMs for general purposes and summarises Isima‘s experiments and findings in this blog post

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Isima tested Z3 on a range of taxing, real-world ecommerce workloads, including microservice calls, ad hoc analytics, visualisation queries

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Isima was able to compare Z3 more effectively with earlier tests that they ran with n2-highmem-16 instances

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They demanded (and attained) 99.999% reliability despite hitting the system with a brief peak load that saturated system resources to 70%

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Choosing pricey, huge compute instances is no longer necessary to obtain better storage performance For more details govindhtech.com

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