Swedish Space2U Chooses Nexenta

Nexenta Systems Inc.
announced that Space2U AB
has upgraded its entire storage IT infrastructure to NexentaStor.

Installing NexentaStor’s HA
cluster, with two nodes and three-way mirroring increased performance.

Based on the High Coast region
of North Sweden in Nordingrå, Space2U is a web hosting company providing a
portfolio of services, such as virtual private servers, hosted exchange, and
offsite backup. Faced with growing volumes of data, the company needed to find
a way to manage it. The company required a storage solution that could protect
present day data, and also expand with future growth.

The decentralised solution,
which consisted of physical servers with direct attached storage units,
provided a low utilisation ratio and hindered the company’s ability to expand
and develop new offerings. Immediate access to data is essential for the
customers. To achieve this, the company needed a performant and high capacity
solution, which would support its annual growth rate of 15% while allowing for
scale out. 

With help from value added
partner Johan Tungström, CEO at Layer 8, the company evaluated several
solutions from legacy providers, including EMC and Dell
Compellent. Space2U selected a
storage platform, based on Supermicro and powered by NexentaStor, a
software-defined storage solution. 

The solution consisted of an HA
Cluster with two nodes and features three Zeus RAM devices to increase write
acceleration. With NexentaStor, the company is able to pool and tier large
amounts of data. The solution also has increased performance-with IOPS of
20,000+ being achieved. These I/O speeds improve customer satisfaction and NexentaStor’s
implementation and management system has reduced staff labour requirements.

The storage infrastructure was
purchased and implemented at a lower cost compared to offerings from legacy
vendors, allowing the company to escape the costly vendor lock-in associated
with these providers.

Erik Meijer, CTO of Space2U
explains: "The upgraded storage
solution, underpinned by NexentaStor, has resolved all of our storage issues.
We now are able to provide our customers with instant access to mission critical
data. This has helped us to not only save money and time, but also remain
competitive in an increasingly growing industry."             

Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta,
says "Nexenta’s Software-defined
Storage provides the high performance and flexibility that web hosting
providers, such as Space2U, require in order to remain competitive. We are
positive that the solution has helped Space2U maintain its reputation in the
web hosting industry and that it will continue to play a key role as the
company moves towards an increasingly virtual environment."