Managed Cloud Services Company Hosting Chooses NetApp/SolidFire

NetApp, Inc. announced that managed cloud services Hosting.Com, Inc. has deployed SolidFire‘s all-flash scale-out storage to meet the storage needs of its most demanding enterprise customers.

“Solution architects at Hosting turn to SolidFire when a client needs high performance for scale-out workloads, a situation more and more of our clients are finding themselves in,” said Darrell Hyde, CTO, Hosting. “Performance matters, both at the customer-facing application front end and at the deep end of the compute and storage infrastructure. And for high performance, Hosting relies on SolidFire.“

Hosting is a managed cloud services provider that unburdens its customers from the challenges of managing security, compliance, infrastructure and business-critical applications across public and private cloud platforms. Many of its customers require fast, predictable performance to accelerate business decision-making and response to security threats. Hosting meets these requirements with all-flash scale-out storage from SolidFire.

Hosting provides its customers with public/multi-tenant, hybrid and dedicated private cloud services. Via its REST-based API, SolidFire is integrated into the Hosting vSphere-based environment, enabling Hosting to deliver services on a per-VM basis.

“Enterprises use the Hosting agile, next-generation infrastructure fueled by SolidFire as the basis for the development of their future revenue streams,” said Stuart Oliver, W service provider programs manager, NetApp. “By enabling Hosting to deliver guaranteed performance and capacity to their customer workloads, customers can focus on what really matters – growing their businesses.“

The SolidFire platform delivers guaranteed performance to thousands of application workloads side-by-side, allowing consolidation and higher-density customer deployments under a single platform. It ensures performance with fine-grain QoS controls, performance virtualization, and the ability to adjust resources on the fly. SolidFire brings Hosting the ability to linearly scale storage without upfront capital expenditures in anticipation of future customer needs.