BlueTie Selects Nimble Adaptive Flash Platform to Replace Aging, Complex Storage Environment
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Leading Provider of Cloud-Based Email and Calendar Solutions Deploys Adaptive Flash Platform to Support Nearly One Million Email Users
Following a seamless transition to the Nimble Adaptive Flash platform, the company has realized impressive gains in application performance, storage capacity, as well as a reduction in its overall data center footprint. According to Robert Doty, President and CEO at BlueTie, "We are now hosting over 800,000 mailboxes on our Nimble storage, and are nowhere near the performance ceiling of that array. We like the way the Nimble CASL file system 'sequentializes' random writes into large sequential stripes. We knew that model would be a good fit for us, since our data is so random. Nimble had the perfect solution for our needs."
The company experienced a reduction in processing power required to operate BlueTie's production environment because the storage subsystem performance increased significantly. The reduced system load has enabled BlueTie to operate its mail service using far fewer servers -- a reduction of 33U to just 10U -- with a reduction of its storage footprint from 3-1/2 racks to 12U of Nimble. As a result of the footprint reduction, BlueTie is now saving more than $36,000 in power costs on an annualized basis. Nimble also provided 1.3X compression on all of BlueTie's data, allowing the organization to remove its previous software compression functionality, freeing up an additional 16TB of storage.
Since deploying Nimble, BlueTie has slashed its IT support costs significantly. "We were paying $70,000 per year for support on our old platform which we were able to eliminate entirely by switching to Nimble," said Doty. "When you add that savings to our $36,000 cut in electricity costs each year, the Nimble array will easily pay for itself in just a few years. Everything is running very smoothly on Nimble, in contrast to the myriad problems we were having with our legacy provider. Nimble designed and built the arrays specifically for the needs of our organization. I really appreciate that!" |
