Managed Cloud Rapidscale provider Netapp Announces Move To All flash FAS

Managed Cloud Rapidscale provider Netapp Announces Move To All flash FAS -

Managed cloud services provider RapidScale, announced completion of the upgrade NetApp FAS All flash from legacy platforms FAS. The move is a result of business expansion continues RapidScale and the need for a more robust solution that can handle increasingly / O performance requirements I and high volume customers.

RapidScale subjected to a selection of multiple solutions and finally chose NetApp as a supplier. All NetApp FAS flash can significantly accelerate database transactions and virtual desktop response times. It would also enable RapidScale to offer a high performance experience to customers residing on solutions such as CloudServer (IaaS) and CloudDesktop (DaaS).

Instead of picking and choosing high-I workloads / O to switch to flash storage, RapidScale moved production environments of all customers of NetApp AFF8060 systems to reduce the latency in each of its four data centers.

"Providing a high performance customer experience makes us more competitive," said William Hiatt, CTO of RapidScale . "We accelerated the database transactions and virtual office response times up to 20x by moving to NetApp FAS All flash. We consider "all flash, all the time" as a competitive differentiator for us against public cloud and other cloud providers supported. Moving to NetApp FAS All flash made a lot of sense from a commercial point of view, and it also helps our technical teams, because they do not have to spend time grant individual workloads for optimal performance. "

RapidScale provides cloud computing solutions customers fully managed, including CloudDesktop (DaaS), CloudServer (IaaS), CloudRecovery (DRaaS) CloudMail (Hosted Exchange) and CloudBackup.