Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd. said today it’s debuting a real-time optimization solution for computer servers that enables companies to get more performance and higher throughput from their data center infrastructure at much lower costs.

The company, which raised $12 million in a Series A round of funding in April, says it’s trying to tackle the problem of “IT infrastructure under-utilization” and deliver more sustainable performance and scale for its customers.

“In a world of increasing architecture complexity and constantly changing production environments, our goal is to relieve businesses of their performance challenges, slashing computing costs while simultaneously improving quality of service,” said Granulate co-founder and Chief Executive Asaf Ezra.

Granulate’s artificial intelligence-based software agents work by studying an application’s specific resource usage patterns and data flow in order to identify any contended resources, bottlenecks and prioritization opportunities. Using this data, the agents are able to tailor operating system level scheduling and prioritization decisions based on things such as central processing unit resource usage, cache and network access, in order to improve the efficiency of each application that runs on the server.

With the improved performance, users can then reduce their cluster sizes and downsize each machine for cost benefits, the company said. Performance gains and other metrics can be viewed in real-time in the gCenter panel (pictured).

“Each of Granulate’s agents is self-contained and performs automated optimizations,” said Tal Saiag, co-founder and chief technology officer at Granulate. “We’re running with over 40,000 instances. We see it scales seamlessly and are excited to open the solution to everyone.”

Granulate says its software agents can boost server performance with a 40% time response reduction and reduce computing costs by up to 60%, enabling each machine to handle more workloads with five times greater throughput.

Moreover, Granulate’s agents are infrastructure agnostic and can be installed without any code changes via a single command line. They can be run on any kind of Linux server at any scale in on-premises data-centers and the cloud, the company said. To help with the latter, Granulate has established relationships with cloud service providers that include Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc. and VMware Inc.

The company said early adopters of its agents include the log analytics provider Coralogix Ltd. and mobile ad attribution platform provider AppsFlyer Inc., which have both achieved a 30% cost reduction with significant application performance gains with their data center infrastructure.

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