Korea Telecom Selects SolidFire All-Flash Storage

SolidFire, Inc. announced that Korea Telecom Corporation (KT) ucloud biz selected SolidFire’s scale-out all-flash storage for its public cloud-based solutions, called KT ucloud biz SSD volume.

SolidFire’s integration with CloudStack and OpenStack, along with its ability to consolidate multiple workloads and guarantee exact levels of performance and capacity, enables KT ucloud biz to achieve the performance, security, agility, service quality and cost competitiveness it demands in order to offer the most advanced public cloud-based solutions to its customers.

KT ucloud biz provides SSD volume service offerings to its customers with IOPS-configurable SSD volumes and guaranteed real-time processing of high-volume data. With SolidFire’s storage infrastructure, KT ucloud biz offerings provide optimized SSD volume service at an attractive price point to meet the varied demands of the 6,000 enterprises using KT cloud services.

Also, SolidFire’s fine-grain QoS has delivered a 6X storage performance improvement per rack and enabled KT ucloud biz to guarantee performance and bandwidth for millions of users. KT ucloud biz has also experienced a 20% reduction in electricity costs and a 10 percent space savings in comparison to its traditional legacy storage systems.

SolidFire has gained traction in the AsiaPac market this year as cloud service adoption becomes pervasive specifically in South Korea. Recent market research shows that 70% of South Korean enterprise organizations plan to increase their cloud service investments through 2017, with IT organizations in the region allocating over 34% of their IT budget to cloud services.

“KT has led the development and advancement of the information and communications industries in Korea since its foundation in 1981. A growing corporation that is prepared for the age of convergence, it makes perfect sense that KT selected SolidFire – a like-minded technology innovator,” Joshua Kim, SolidFire’s country manager, Korea, said. “KT played a key role in transforming Korea into a major information technology hub, and now with SolidFire’s all-flash scale-out storage, KT ucloud biz is delivering the most advanced cloud-based solutions to millions of customers.“