Case Study: Colony Networks achieves a 40% storage performance boost and rapid, scalable, resilient deployment with Coho Data's DataStream 1000h

Colony Networks Deploys Scale-Out Storage to Keep Up with Customer Demand

Colony Networks is a cloud‑based service provider for cellular and Wi‑Fi operators that delivers real‑time network health analytics and mobile user geo‑location to enterprise clients. After virtualizing their datacenter, they ran into shared storage performance and resiliency problems that threatened SLA compliance and rapid application development, and they needed a modular, low‑overhead solution that could scale without large upfront investment or extensive tuning.

Colony deployed the Coho DataStream 1000h for VMware, a hybrid flash + HDD appliance with smart tiering and commodity hardware. The system installed in about 15 minutes and migrated data in a few hours, delivering an immediate 40% storage performance boost, built‑in replication for high resiliency, and plug‑and‑play node‑by‑node scalability so the company can grow capacity without service disruption.

Colony Networks

James Martin

VP of Network Operations