ViaWest Partners With SolidFire

ViaWest, Inc., a privately-held data center, cloud computing and MSP in North America, announces
its partnership with SolidFire, Inc. to offer
SSD storage with firm SLAs.

Leveraged with ViaWest’s KINECTed
Cloud platform, SolidFire storage offerings enable the most demanding
workloads to run in the cloud. SolidFire’s use of SSD technology, combined with
storage architecture, enables rapid provisioning of scalable, reliable storage.
Users are able to dial up or dial down performance on-demand according to their
specific requirements. SolidFire’s IO and bandwidth virtualization technology
make this possible within a managed and monitored system complete with an
intuitive user interface.

"By
combining our feature-rich, VMware-powered KINECTed Cloud with the unmatched
performance of SolidFire’s storage technology, ViaWest customers will be able
to provision network-accessible volumes for their cloud instances with 100%
SLAs on storage performance and availability – something not achievable until
now," states Jason Carolan, ViaWest CTO. "This pairing accelerates performance standards beyond what has been
previously available in the cloud. This offering leverages our robust data
management and administrative services to create a one-stop shop for
production-grade, high performance services," Carolan adds.

"ViaWest
continues to challenge the status quo of what is possible within the cloud,"
says SolidFire founder and CEO Dave Wright. "They fully grasp that cloud computing is evolving toward supporting
performance sensitive and business critical applications and have built an
infrastructure fueled by SolidFire to meet the increasing demand. ViaWest also
places a premium on the customer experience. SolidFire’s ability to guarantee
application performance allows ViaWest to set and maintain customer
expectations from day one for every application within their cloud."

This offering is for heavily utilized databases, big data, virtual desktop, and
high throughput virtual machines. The SolidFire platform allows ViaWest to use
its data center space more wisely and take advantage of lower power consumption.