CASE STUDY
Elastx Choose SolidFire
Platform as a Service
SolidFire SF3010 deployed in Sweden-based data centre
About Elastx
Elastx is a platform as a service (PaaS)
hosting provider delivering fully
automated platforms with true vertical
and horizontal scaling and no
commercial or technical lock-ins.
Consequently; Elastx has a much
shorter time to market and less manual
maintenance. The Stockholm-based
company also provides consultancy
services around cloud orchestration,
DevOps processes and full-stack
development. They have three global
data centres and use all-flash storage
exclusively for their offerings.
Storage Requirements
Jelastic powers Elastx’s easy:PaaS
offering. Easy:PaaS is a platform where
customers can create a complete server
environment for Java, PHP or Ruby
applications. Typical Elastx customers
are in the media space, hosting websites
or providing software as a service (SaaS).
“SaaS providers really like the scaling
capabilities and being able to clone the
environment,” said Henrik Grankvist,
Business Development Manager of
Elastx. “We also have a number of
websites that appreciate the platform
as well. It’s very easy to maintain, and
it can accommodate the varied loads in
terms of users and visitors to their sites.”
Elastx had the privilege of building
their PaaS from scratch, enabling them
to consider a variety of storage options
as they were developing the service. “We
knew we wanted an SSD-based system.
We wanted de-duplication, and a
scale-out design was absolutely
mandatory,” explained Henrik. Elastx
also wanted the storage they selected
to provide more IOPS per node
and to be fully redundant, so they
could lose a node without downtime.
Elastx’s ops:IaaS service is a public
infrastructure as a service offering
that is based on OpenStack, making
integration with cloud software critical.
SolidFire who ticked all boxes in terms
of requirements,” said Henrik.
“SolidFire had de-duplication and
scale out, we were getting the IOPS we
needed.” Beyond pure performance,
SolidFire’s scale-out capabilities have
resonated with Elastx’s customers.
“Once an application or website is up
and running, it’s also how blazingly fast
it scales up and down. It’s quite
common when you have peak loads
to get a glitch there, but with our
platform and underlying architecture
it goes instantly.” Feedback from Elastx
customers has been extremely positive.
By switching to Elastx, one customer
was