Peak 10 Deployed Nexenta Open Software-Defined Storage Solutions

Nexenta Systems, Inc. announced, in conjunction with the release of IDC’s Buyer Case Study (registration required), that Peak 10, Inc., a national IT infrastructure, connectivity and cloud service provider, selected the NexentaStor and Western Digital InfiniFlash platform storage solution.

This decision has enabled Peak 10 to future-proof their DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offerings and provide an economic, agile, and flexible solution to their customers.

With 16 datacenters in key US markets, Peak 10 provides thousands of enterprise customers with both production and DR services, expanding their cloud business at an impressive rate of 25% year over year. Peak 10’s Recovery Cloud delivers DR that supports a range of workloads and offers DRaaS for co-location customers using Peak 10 production workloads as well as those who need DR in the cloud.

As Peak 10 was refreshing their hardware, they looked to newer software-defined storage all-flash solutions to provide higher performance, greater efficiencies, lower TCO, and to simplify the management of their storage infrastructure. It was also crucial for the company to ensure that their storage supported their growth while simultaneously offering their customers flexibility across a variety of workloads and ensuring that the SLAs related to performance and availability were met or exceeded.

After deploying over 2.5PB of NexentaStor and the Western Digital InfiniFlash all-flash platform (AFP) solution, Peak 10 has accomplished the following:

• Increased storage performance and reduced latency to 1-2 milliseconds
• Greater scalability and enterprise data services, including improved datacenter ecosystem integration capabilities
• Reduced in rack space requirements by more than 90% and energy consumption by 75%
• 35% TCO reduction relative to their legacy storage
  

“With the all-flash NexentaStor and InfiniFlash deployment, we’ve seen a number of performance, ease-of use, and scalability benefits,” said Chad Buzzard, director of cloud infrastructure, Peak 10. “Many of our customers regularly perform DR tests, and depending on exactly what a customer was testing, concerns around disk performance could arise. Since switching to software-defined storage on flash with lower latencies and higher throughput, those concerns have virtually disappeared.“

“Peak 10’s experience with both All-Flash Appliances and software-defined storage is being replicated across many enterprises and cloud providers alike,” said Eric Burgener, research director, storage, IDC. “AFAs are clearly the future of primary storage, and products like InfiniFlash – when running on enterprise unified storage software platforms like NexentaStor – are bringing the benefits of flash to additional workload types, such as DR, that have traditionally been considered secondary.“

“Software-defined storage on all-flash is breaking down storage economic barriers and is enabling our customers to take flash to workloads they would never have considered in the past,” said Tarkan Maner, chairman and CEO, Nexenta. “At Nexenta, we combine performance, cost-optimization, and scalability to deliver storage that provides simplicity and flexibility with a rich enterprise feature set to our customers, such as Peak 10, so that they can deliver superior solutions and service to their own customers.“

“Cloud service providers like Peak 10 must depend on the ability to deliver reliable, scalable, and agile storage infrastructures for their customers,” said Gary Lyng, senior director of marketing, data center systems business unit, Western Digital. “Data is critical to the success of both Peak 10 and to their customers as they depend on it to drive business and deliver value. We are pleased that they selected our award-winning InfiniFlash platform and the NexentaStor SDS solution to optimize their infrastructure and offerings.“