Case Study: Plaxo achieves 50% faster code builds and 80% less development downtime with HPE Nimble Storage

As Membership Booms, Plaxo Finds New Storage Regimen a Key to Keeping Pace with Demand

Plaxo, the smart-address-book pioneer (now part of Comcast), scaled rapidly from 15 million to 50 million members and runs dozens of virtual machines in a VMware environment. That growth created IT pain points—sluggish data transfers, long code build times, frequent development downtime and the complexity of many VMs contending on a single backend storage array.

Plaxo deployed two Nimble CS240 converged storage arrays with cross-replication and SSD-accelerated reads on high-density SATA capacity. The change cut code build times by up to 50%, reduced development downtime by about 80%, enabled ~15-minute failovers, smoothed I/O peaks, lowered development costs, and restored developer productivity while providing scalable storage for future growth.

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