Contegix Accelerates Private Cloud Deployment With NetApp SolidFire

“NetApp SolidFire supports our mission to always display respect for people, time, and data,” said Craig McElroy, CTO and cofounder, Contegix, LLC. “Guaranteeing performance and eliminating noisy neighbors respect our customers as people. Eliminating delays in infrastructure respects their time. The ability to control how many gigabytes or terabytes are procured for a client is respect for data. NetApp SolidFire enabled us to get to a unified storage platform where we can focus on delivering high-value customer business outcomes. Every interaction at that level is a deposit in the trust bank.“

Based in St. Louis, MO, Contegix is a provider of cloud, managed application, and IT solutions that help midsize businesses simplify infrastructure management, improve productivity, and optimize IT resources. Many of its customers leverage the company’s data centers to deploy private cloud environments on VMware and OpenStack platforms. Contegix required a solution that would eliminate noisy neighbors within its multi-tenant infrastructure, would scale to accelerate business performance, and would deliver on-demand control over both performance and capacity.

Contegix turned to NetApp, Inc. and deployed the SolidFire all-flash storage system to meet customers’ demands for scalability and guaranteed performance to accelerate their private cloud deployments. With SolidFire volume-level quality-of-service controls, Contegix can guarantee performance for all customer applications and adjust resources dynamically. It can scale independent resource pools of performance and capacity in anticipation of future needs, without up-front capital expenditures and without upgrade, data migration, and downtime costs.

The solution reduces provisioning time and burden, while lowering the entry price for shared storage for VMware and OpenStack-based cloud environments.

For example, Contegix customer Rx Outreach, Inc., a nonprofit mail-order pharmacy, uses its infrastructure to meet the performance needs of its business-critical applications. By using SolidFire, Contegix guarantees min, max and burst IO/s for every application on the system. Contegix was also able to right-size the environment so that the pharmacy didn’t have to purchase unnecessary capacity up front.

After implementing SolidFire, Contegix has: