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Netrepid improves performance by 80% by replacing older CapEx-based storage with OpEx-based Zadara On-Premise-as-a-Service VPSA Storage Arrays
“Simply amazing! Overall, we are seeing 80% better performance with the Zadara Storage VPSA solution than with our prior storage solution.” Chris Jones, Infrastructure Architect, Netrepid
Customer Profile: Netrepid provides colocation, infrastructure and application hosting services that work side by side with a large variety of industries including healthcare, financial, education, transportation and government to accelerate their technology evolution from the ground to the cloud. Challenge: • Eliminate CapEx limitations imposed by existing storage • Improve deployment agility, client responsiveness and overall system performance Solution: • Zadara Storage VPSA Storage Array - On-Premise-as-a-Service Results: • Pure OpEx pay-as-you-go solution • Resource isolation to clients enables predictable performance and greater security • Able to deploy storage nodes in minutes rather than weeks • Reduced hardware footprint by 81% • Improved performance by 80%
Netrepid eliminates CapEx agility challenges, while reducing cost and improving peformance Netrepid, founded in 2004 in Central Pennsylvania, is a leading provider of colocation, infrastructure and application hosting services. The Netrepid Data Center is a carrier grade, Tier-3 data center providing redundant internet, cooling, power, and security. The facility maintains an annual SSAE-16 audit as well as HIPAA and PCI audits to ensure all current security measures are met. This facility provides colocation as well as hosting, virtual and cloud services. To support both their internal and external storage needs, Netrepid had standardized on Dell EqualLogic storage. As the company grew, the limitations of Capital Expenditure (CapEx) storage became apparent. As Chris Jones, Infrastructure Architect at Netrepid
described, “we were confined to the storage we had purchased. To expand our capacity, we needed to invest a lot of capital and there was significant delay while waiting for additional EqualLogic storage to arrive and be installed. We were not able to be responsive to our clients, both internal and external.” To address the challenge, Netrepid turned to other enterprise storage providers and were investigating several solutions from traditional SAN and Flash Arrays. However, they worried that while they may solve their agility issues, they may create a CapEx financial hurdle that could impact company scalability.
“We can spin-up storage nodes in minutes, rather than waiting a week for our prior vendor to ship us a new storage array.” “I love the snapshot functionality. It just works! Our data is protected and I don’t have to think about it.” “The SSD caching is simply brilliant. I resolved a system lag issue with the click of a button.” – Chris Jones, Infrastructure Architect, Netrepid
Netrepid CEO Sam Coyl saw a Zadara Storage presentation at an industry trade show and immediately put their pending purchase order on-hold. After a comparison of the solutions, Netrepid decided to proceed with the Zadara Storage VPSA Storage Array. Leveraging the on-premise version of the Zadara Storage solution allowed Netrepid to keep all of their storage on-site within their own data center, while enjoying the economic benefits of a Storage-as-a-Service solution. They are now supporting the majority of both their internal and external applications on Zadara VPSA storage arrays, including Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server, and VMware virtual machines. As Chris Jones described, “Our agility and client responsiveness has improved dramatically. We can spin-up storage nodes in minutes rather than waiting a week for EqualLogic to ship us a new storage array.” Another key benefit achieved with the Zadara solution was resource isolation. Each of Netrepid’s clients now has isolated storage resources. This not only provides predictable performance by eliminating the “noisy neighbor” problem, but also enhances security and privacy. By leveraging the Zadara Storage chargeback capabilities, Netrepid is able to accurately charge each of their clients for the actual resources used, rather an average “allocation”.
Once all of the Dell EqualLogic equipment was replaced, Netrepid reduced their overall hardware footprint by 81%. This translates into significant power and cooling savings, while providing more room for future expansion. From a performance standpoint, Chris described the results as, “Simply amazing! Overall, we are seeing 80% better performance with the Zadara Storage VPSA solution than with our prior solution.” The Zadara SSD caching has been particularly useful for Netrepid. “I recently noticed we had a group of 70-80 VMware virtual machines that had a lag in performance. I simply turned on SSD caching and the problem went away. This was awesome!” Looking forward, Netrepid plans to leverage Zadara’s remote mirroring capabilities and the Backup to S3 (B2S3) service. With their block and file based storage under control, they are also planning to deploy Zadara’s ZIOS Object Storage solution to support other critical elements of their business. Netrepid, like many other leading companies, are recognizing that traditional CapEx storage cannot keep up with their scalability, agility and economic requirements. By deploying Zadara’s VPSA Storage-as-a-Service onpremise solution, they addressed their key requirements while significantly increasing performance and reducing costs.
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