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With infrastructure and data center as the top technology investment priority for Africa CIOs in 2015, SolidFire's storage platform enables businesses to increase agility and benefit from the cloud
BOULDER & CAPE TOWN, August 18, 2015 –ShapeBlue and SolidFire, the leader in all-flash storage systems built for the Next Generation Data Center, today announced that RSAWEB, a hosting and connectivity provider in South Africa, is the first Internet Service Provider to deploy SolidFire's innovative all-flash scale-out storage platform on the African continent, specifically in its data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town. For the first time, companies on the African continent can easily manage resources on demand with fast, secure, scalable infrastructure that delivers guaranteed and predictable performance in the cloud and removes the barriers typically associated with the move to the cloud.
ShapeBlue played an integral role in the deployment by enabling RSAWEB to test the solution and providing local technical, commercial and operational support throughout the entire process. "At ShapeBlue, we are always assessing the market for best-fit technology for our cloud customers' environments. Providing feature-rich, automated and competitive cloud services is vital," said Dan Crowe, Managing Consultant at ShapeBlue South Africa. "SolidFire's solutions are proven and trusted. In addition, by offering practical space and power-saving efficiencies and enabling us and RSAWEB to use the existing supply chain, SolidFire was the perfect fit."
RSAWEB's customers require an infrastructure with simple online management, resiliency and performance predictability without any maintenance or capital cost headaches. SolidFire meets these needs by offering the ability to allocate, manage and guarantee storage performance with complete data and performance availability, regardless of system condition or application activity. Leveraging SolidFire storage infrastructure, RSAWEB can now provide its customers with flexible, infinitely scalable cloud server and virtual private data centre infrastructure at an affordable price.
Unlike any other vendor, SolidFire enables RSAWEB to isolate and identify root causes of performance spikes and completely eliminate noisy neighbours issues – applications that monopolize performance and slow it down for others. Its linear scale-out architecture means RSA can scale performance and capacity independently, without downtime or disruption. SolidFire's REST-based API allows for seamless integration with RSAWEB's VMware-based environment and its automation capabilities eliminate the challenges of day-to-day operations.
"The recent rollout of high-speed fiber connectivity combined with customers' needs for speed and performance have made all-flash arrays the ideal choice for storage infrastructure in Africa. SolidFire enables us to not only meet this demand, but allows us to deliver additional value through linear and modular scalability and automation," said Allan Boyle, operations director at RSAWEB.
"Storage has historically been a barrier that prevented many companies from going to the cloud. But with SolidFire at the core of our infrastructure, we can break down this barrier and give customers the confidence they need to move more workloads to the cloud," said Andrew Cruise, cloud engineering manager at RSAWEB. "There are no more excuses to not go to the cloud. SolidFire's automation, performance, scalability and flexibility open up brand new customer opportunities for us."
"RSAWEB has always been an innovative company, launching the first public pay-as-you-go IaaS service in South Africa in 2010. With an infrastructure Fueled by SolidFire, it continues to drive innovation for its customers and allows us to establish strong presence in the region," said Stuart Oliver, global service provider programs manager at SolidFire. "Our solution was designed from the ground up for service providers like RSAWEB, enabling them to deliver performance-sensitive applications from a shared cloud infrastructure. Combined with our scale-out model and automation, service providers and their customers gain increased agility, allowing them to respond to business demands faster than ever."
About RSAWEB
Since being established in 2001, RSAWEB has grown rapidly, gaining extensive industry experience while continuously improving products. With great commitment to customer service excellence and in-depth technical understanding, RSAWEB is able to retain partnerships with some of South Africa's leading brands from a wide array of sectors. RSAWEB takes pride in offering clients the best in service and support, providing Service-Level Agreements and a 24-hour helpdesk that fully supports and monitors all services, ensuring all clients have absolute peace of mind, this is who we are.
Having invested heavily in infrastructure, RSAWEB has built a strong presence in South Africa and Internationally with data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and POPs (points of presence) in London, Europe and the USA. http://www.rsaweb.co.za/
About ShapeBlue
ShapeBlue is the largest independent integrator of CloudStack technologies globally, and a specialist in the design and implementation of IaaS cloud infrastructures for both private and public cloud implementations.Our services range from consulting, integration, support and training and cover cloud orchestration, networking and storage technologies. http://www.shapeblue.com/
About SolidFire
SolidFire is the market leader in all-flash storage systems built for the next generation data center. Leveraging SolidFire's all-flash architecture, with volume-level Quality of Service (QoS) controls, customers now can guarantee storage performance to thousands of applications within a shared infrastructure. Coupling this functionality with in-line data reduction techniques and system-wide automation results in substantial capital and operating cost savings relative to traditional disk and basic all-flash storage systems. www.solidfire.com
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