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Just as they were talking to the big all-flash incumbent about the so-called ‘ safe route ’ to storage , they began a conversation with Infinidat , a fast-rising leader in multi-petabyte storage , because of a value proposition that caught their attention . What transpired next changed everything .
A flexible storage solution option
“ We saw the catch phrase Infinidat was using about high speed at half the price and that got me interested because we were looking at all-flash arrays and wanted a substantial SSD flash component of our storage ,” said Thompson . “ This was an interesting turn of events .” of Infinidat ’ s biggest differentiators was the ability to do integrated snapshotting with Hyper-V – even at the Volume Shadow Storage level .
“ We were one of the earlier Hyper-V customers of Infinidat and when the snapshotting option came up and Infinidat confirmed we could actually do hourly snapshots , that was big on sealing the deal ,” said Thompson . “ We were going to get ample amounts of storage back .”
VDC selected the InfiniBox F2260 , with effective storage over a petabyte , which is the scale the company needed to grow to .
VDC quickly found out that Infinidat delivers on the promise of its value proposition . As Thompson attests , there was a compelling case that he felt confident would sustain VDC ’ s growth . The high performance , resilience , reliability , cost-effectiveness , flexibility and 100 % availability of the Infinidat storage platform disrupted the legacy perceptions in the marketplace about enterprise-class storage .
Long-term benefits : Uptime , consolidation and cost savings
Fully implemented in October 2019 , the data storage system has had 100 % storage uptime , according to VDC ’ s President and CEO . Much to his satisfaction , the company was able to consolidate its storage and not see any downtime at all .
With its broad range of integrations , Infinidat was able to offer VDC the support for Hyper-V . Specifically , one
“ We were able to consolidate five or six other SANs into a single SAN ,” said Thompson . “ We ’ re talking
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