RapidScale Accelerates Enterprise Profitability with NetApp All Flash FAS
October 18 2016 - 8:00AM
“As a cloud solution provider, we view ‘all flash, all the time’ as
a competitive differentiator for us against public cloud and other
managed cloud providers,” said William Hiatt, CTO at RapidScale.
“Moving to NetApp All Flash FAS made a lot of sense from a business
standpoint, and it also helps our technical teams because they
don’t have to spend time tuning individual workloads for optimal
performance. It’s all on flash, and it’s always fast.”
RapidScale provides the most comprehensive managed cloud
services that are available in the industry, with a global
presence, enterprise-grade infrastructure, and a team of highly
knowledgeable cloud experts. As a leader in managed cloud services,
RapidScale must manage extremely variable customer workloads,
ranging from just a few virtual desktops to critical high-volume
manufacturing and healthcare environments.
RapidScale enlisted NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) to support its annual
growth of almost 100% and to provide optimal performance for its
CloudServer (infrastructure-as-a-service) and CloudDesktop
(desktop-as-a-service) offerings. These offerings help customers
eliminate the hassle of day-to-day updates and user management
while accelerating productivity and profitability. After moving all
of its customers’ production environments to NetApp® All Flash FAS,
the company found that it exceeded customer expectations for even
the most demanding workloads.
RapidScale is now positioned to easily handle exponential data
growth as its customers embrace the Internet of Things, while
delivering top-tier database and application performance. In
addition, RapidScale now uses NetApp SnapMirror® software to
replicate data between locations for disaster recovery and NetApp
OnCommand® Insight software to gain a unified view of storage
across the company’s data center.
With its new solution, RapidScale has:
- Empowered a hospital to decrease virtual desktop login times by
approximately 80%, helping nurses and clinicians access patient
information faster
- Accelerated database transaction response speed by up to 20
times
- Reclaimed valuable engineering time by eliminating the need for
performance tuning at the storage layer
- Made flash storage efficient and affordable for the end user
with deduplication and compression
More information:
- Read the RapidScale case study
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