Virtacore Has Chosen Nimble Storage
To build flexible and efficient foundation for cloud services
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 29, 2013 at 2:42 pmNimble
Storage, Inc. announced that Virtacore
Systems, Inc., a cloud services provider that specializes in virtual
infrastructure solutions utilizing VMware, has made the Nimble Storage
CS-Series a core element of its cloud infrastructure framework.
With over 12 years of experience in cloud
and internet services, Virtacore has a long history of providing public and
private cloud solutions to meet the needs of clients at the mid-market and
enterprise levels. With offices in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Salt Lake
City and Ashburn, as well as facilities in Virginia, Illinois and California,
Virtacore maintains a strong presence in the US and serves clients across the
globe.
Demand for Virtacore’s cloud services has
been growing rapidly. The company was seeking a new solution that
would provide faster deployment and better scalability for its suite of
cloud offerings. The Nimble Storage scale-to-fit architecture enabled Virtacore
to build an efficient and performance foundation for delivering
Infrastructure as a Service and accelerate its clients’ journey to the cloud.
Key Facts:
- Leveraging Nimble Storage’s Scale to fit
architecture, Virtacore has decreased customer onboarding times and improved
efficiencies in its infrastructure. -
Using the Nimble Storage CS-Series, it expanded
its cloud services offering to include large databases and performance-oriented
workloads, including business intelligence as well as Oracle and SQL
Server-based transactional databases, thus expanding its opportunities for
growth. -
Nimble Storage’s Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture
enabled a 50% reduction of Virtacore’s data footprint without loss in
performance – reducing facility costs and power
consumption. -
Nimble Storage and its SmartStack eco-system of partners offer a
portfolio for building efficient and scalable enterprise-class cloud services
for application development and testing, backup, collaboration, desktop, DR,
infrastructure, messaging and storage.
"The Nimble Storage solution provides all of
the performance and operating metrics we demand to maintain our competitive
advantage in the exploding cloud-services market," said Phill Lawson-Shanks,
CTO, Virtacore.
"Despite our best efforts to find
weaknesses, the Nimble Storage systems consistently performed above, and far
beyond, our expectations," said Matt Tedder, engineering team leader,
Virtacore.
"Nimble Storage is committed to
building successful partnerships with the service provider community and
helping them succeed. Virtacore is a great use case on how the SmartStack
ecosystem delivers highly scalable and efficient to deliver ROI,"
said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO, Nimble Storage.