Case Study: Storage Made Easy achieves higher uptime and automated provisioning with Linode

Reliability, Convenience and Cost 3 Primary Reasons SME Chose Linode

Storage Made Easy (SME) provides an Enterprise File Fabric that unifies private and public data for collaboration, security, encryption and governance. SME faced two main challenges: its SaaS platform required constant uptime and high throughput that needed global load balancing, and some enterprise customers needed on-demand, cost‑effective hosted instances of the appliance without investing in new infrastructure or advanced system administration. SME also wanted to automate customer on-boarding for these IaaS instances.

SME solved this by leveraging Linode’s nine global datacenters to balance traffic and recommending Linode as a managed private appliance option for customers lacking infrastructure or admin resources, with on-boarding automated via the Linode API and a planned one‑click deployment. The result was improved uptime and SLA performance, simplified administration, faster customer provisioning with lower onboarding costs, and increased market adoption and subscriptions—including new enterprise customers—of the Enterprise File Fabric solution.

Storage Made Easy

James Norman

Engineering Manager