Nexenta
(@Nexenta),
the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS)
(#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced it has collaborated with HGST
(@HGSTStorage), a Western Digital Company (NASDAQ: WDC), to create
an all-flash storage solution for Tracx
(@Tracx), a global provider of next generation social media platforms
for the enterprise.
Established in 2010, Tracx provides an end-to-end solution that enables
customers to manage their entire social media presence intelligently.
With 100% year-on-year growth, Tracx’s next generation social media
management solutions (SMMS) are quickly gaining momentum with operations
in the US, Europe, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and
Israel.
Like many organizations where data is essential to operations, Tracx
needed an extremely high performance storage solution that delivers 100%
reliability for the mission critical database that runs the real-time
analytical section of its social media platform.
“More and more enterprises are leveraging real-time analytics to better
tailor their offerings to the evolving needs of their customers,” said
Eric Burgener, research director at IDC. “Due to the stringent
performance needs of these types of application environments, solid
state disks are often part of the mix. Software-defined storage
solutions like Nexenta’s can manage this flash storage to optimize not
only their performance but their reliability and endurance as well,
delivering very cost-efficient solutions that meet enterprise
requirements.”
Erez Zarum, Dev Ops team leader at Tracx, said, “We originally
implemented Nexenta with another line of SSDs but experienced some
performance issues that we knew could cause greater issues down the road
as we continued to grow. We took Nexenta’s advice and replaced the
incumbent SSDs with drives from HGST and have been amazed with the
difference in performance and reliability.”
Since implementing the all-flash solution, Tracx has reported
improvements in performance, capacity utilization and reliability, with
no failures to date. IT admins at Tracx can now easily manage the highly
available (HA) storage environment and the high level of IOPS created
without suffering performance degradation.
“With the new all-flash solution from Nexenta and HGST, we have created
a solution that will continue to scale with us. We now have 24/7
business continuity and ultimately have a solution that we can
completely rely on. The environment can be scaled to cope with our
annual growth while the total cost of ownership (TCO) remains low,”
Zarum added.
Nigel Edwards, vice president of EMEA Sales and Channel Marketing, HGST,
said, “For a company like Tracx that is working with real-time
analytical, mission critical data, HGST
enterprise SAS SSD are the perfect solution. As similar
organizations have experienced, not all SSDs are created equal.
Enterprise SSDs are a way organisations can help ensure that they don’t
experience failures and degradation.”
Mark Jordan, Vice President & General Manager, Nexenta, said, “Business
continuity is imperative to operations for enterprises like Tracx, so
it’s important they have a storage infrastructure that they can rely on.
The all-flash SDS solution is the perfect solution for Tracx as it
eliminates vendor lock in, is easily scaled and offers a low TCO. We
pride ourselves on helping organisations to step away from the Massively
Expensive Storage Systems (MESS) and to create a solution that is the
best fit for them.”
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering
easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions.
Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing
innovation freedom and speed for organisations to realise the “true”
benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing.
Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to
Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and
CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an “open
source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its
award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management
solutions with a global partner network. For more information, visit, www.nexenta.com,
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