Calligo Using Solidfire SSD Appliances

SolidFire
Inc.,
a provider of SSD primary storage systems for cloud service
providers, announced that Calligo
Ltd.,
the UK Channel Islands’ complete cloud service provider, is
using the SolidFire all-flash appliances as part of its cloud
infrastructure.

SolidFire’s block storage
technology offered the performance, flexibility and scale that
Calligo needed to support thousands of applications within their
shared infrastructure. In addition, SolidFire’s all-SSD performance
and QoS controls enabled Calligo to increase VM densities while
inline data reduction techniques increased profitability and reduced
their carbon footprint.

"Our users here in the
Channel Islands vary in size and have locations all around the world.
We combine proven best-of-breed technologies that are often out of
reach for an individual customer. We make both our infrastructure
and the solutions that ride on top of that infrastructure
cost-effective and easily accessible," said Julian Box, CEO
of Calligo. "We chose SolidFire after extensive research and
development work, initially with systems that were not designed for
large scale multi-tenant user environments, then with SolidFire
itself. With SolidFire’s guaranteed QoS, we now offer hard SLAs
around exact performance metrics while remaining in compliance with
local data residency and data protection mandates. Outside of
backups, everything we do is fueled by SolidFire; we don’t require a
unique storage infrastructure for each of our PaaS, SaaS, or IaaS
offerings."

"Delivering predictable
primary storage in the cloud is a unique challenge, and one of the
main reasons why I founded SolidFire. The storage system was designed
from the ground up to enable providers to deliver compute clouds with
guaranteed storage performance both profitably and at scale,"
commented Dave Wright, SolidFire founder and CEO. "We are
very excited to be part of the leading-edge infrastructure that
Calligo is bringing to the off-shore community. They are leveraging
our QoS capabilities to build firm SLAs and are taking full advantage
of the system’s flexibility by implementing SolidFire’s technology
behind all of their services. We are looking forward to working
hand-in-hand with Calligo as they continue to differentiate
themselves in this crowded market."

Details about the case
study
Video showing Calligo’s
CEO sharing details on decision to choose SolidFire