Automation by the NumbersHow SolidFire customers are maximizing operational efficiency

The abundance of automation tools is a sure sign of the complexities we face when developing and deploying business solutions. Emerging companies are simplifying tasks by automating services from software development lifecycle to storage management. BUT your automation tools are limited in the value they can deliver if not implemented with the right infrastructure.

While the industry has incorporated API support into infrastructures, SolidFire was built from the ground up to be API-driven. Consumed through code, our infrastructure makes it equally simple to setup, allocate, and consume for admins and developers alike while

delivering faster time to revenue for the business.

Global Knowledge delivers weekly online courses in VMware, Red Hat, Cisco, and SAP. Using a custom, self-built orchestration layer within SolidFire’s API allows engineers to tear down and rebuild training environments at the end of each week. This process formerly required engineers to work through the weekend to be ready for Monday morning classes. Class setups vary, requiring either simple, single application deployments to a single SolidFire volume, or more complex classes may consist of workstations, desktops, and nested ESXi hosts. SolidFire APIs enable Global Knowledge to provision, assign, tune, and monitor training courses and quickly build and destroy volumes as courses start and end. - James Maltba, NetApp SolidFire Systems Engineer

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After implementing SolidFire, storage service delivery to developers and application business owners has improved

- TechValidate survey of a medium enterprise computer software company

25-50%.

SolidFire brings storage management within reach of DevOps and other teams without forcing them to learn proprietary technologies.

“You plug it in, you have a web interface, and everything is iSCSI; you don’t need a decade of experience as a storage administrator to understand what you’re looking at. SolidFire is storage purpose-built for the cloud.” - Donald Talton, Director, Platform Operations & Cloud Engineering, FICO

Europe’s largest media company provides streaming media, pay-TV, broadband, and telephone services to more than 20 million subscribers. Using SolidFire’s integration with VMware, the storage team utilizes QoS to automatically share storage to disparate teams and workloads who previously needed dedicated hardware. By delivering a compelling, on-premises, production-grade alternative to AWS, they bring data back under their own control and curtail excessive, unplanned public cloud costs. - Carl Gridley, NetApp SolidFire Systems Engineer

With SolidFire automations in storage provisioning, AHCS expects to eliminate of their overall administrative tasks. - Daniel Van Benthuysen, Network Administrator, Automated Healthcare Solutions

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HedgeServ runs both its test/dev and 95% of its production workloads on SolidFire. Whereas before it took 30 minutes to an hour to deploy a VM, with SolidFire, it takes less than a few minutes. HedgeServ’s Quality Assurance (QA) process used to take 18 hours; now it’s down to less than two hours.

“Developers get their results faster, so we can deploy software much more frequently [and] iterate faster.” - Isa Berisha, Director of Global Platform Engineering, HedgeServ

SolidFire’s all-flash storage enables full automation with IS’s continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflow, enabling DevOps services and virtual machines with containers to be deployed

up to 15 times faster than with traditional architectures. It also allows IS to deliver predictable performance to hundreds of applications and services on a single platform, along with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS).

- Internet Solutions

“SolidFire has made deploying and managing our storage a lot less painful. With it, we can focus our efforts on other projects.”

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- IT Architect, Medium Enterprise Computer Software company

Storage provisioning is automation-quick, compared to weeks to configure and deploy storage through traditional ticketing systems. - FICO

Deploying thousands of virtual machines daily through OpenStack, using SolidFire’s Cinder integration, allows tenants to self-provision virtual machines and attach block storage with SolidFire Quality of Service (QoS). Where legacy competitive systems left bottlenecks, SolidFire’s integration allows for the orchestration and deployment of virtual machines. - Jeff Darrish, NetApp SolidFire Systems Engineer

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