Case Study
Afrihost
COMPANY: Afrihost www.afrihost.com CHALLENGE: • Exponential customer growth on slowing HDD storage arrays • High $/TB cost for RAID10 configuration due to huge VM load on HDD arrays • Customers have no long-term contracts—outstanding service is critical to company SOLUTION: • Two datacenters running VMware vSphere on blade servers • 47TB Pure Storage FlashArray 450 • 3.6:1 Data Reduction • Provisioning time cut from 30 minutes to one