Go Daddy Uses SwiftTest Storage Control Solution

SwiftTest
Inc. announced that Go Daddy is using its technology to
help control storage costs and optimize service delivery.

With
SwiftTest, the hosting provider can to innovate with storage
technologies while saving money and improving performance.

Go
Daddy’s storage team manages a hefty (28PB) and growing storage
infrastructure with 99.999% uptime in a SaaS model. The team faces
the challenge of innovating to improve service delivery and to reduce
costs. Having the ability to validate innovations prior to deployment
in production was a requirement for Go Daddy, as ‘testing in
production’ with live customers was not an option. Adoption of
SwiftTest has turned what was once an arduous process into an
effective solution.

"If
you can’t validate technology before it’s deployed into production,
then you are flying blind," said Julia Palmer, storage
protection and data manager at Go Daddy. "SwiftTest gives us
the confidence of knowing exactly how our infrastructure will behave
in the real world, in a matter of days instead of months. It helps us
determine an optimal balance of better, faster, and affordable
storage system technologies that ultimately benefit Go Daddy’s 11
million customers worldwide."

SwiftTest
is leveraged by Go Daddy in use cases including product
bake-offs, technology evaluations, density testing, and routine
change management.

"We
can now assess cutting edge storage technologies like SSDs, caching /
tiering, and dedup against our full production requirements, faster
and more accurately than ever before," says Justin
Richardson, senior storage engineer at Go Daddy. "SwiftTest
puts us in the driver’s seat when it comes to our storage roadmap and
our cost structure."

Offering
a validation solution across file, block and object storage,
SwiftTest can stress modern data center infrastructure to its limits
with real-life traffic and tremendous load. The storage validation
process is a step in a journey towards an improved user experience,
cost savings, and confidence in using the latest technologies.

"Our
mission is to empower storage experts like the Go Daddy team with the
insight they need to improve service delivery and reduce costs and
become company superstars," said Philippe Vincent, president
and CEO of SwiftTest. "We’re honored to be a part of their
success."