Case Study: RapidScale achieves up to 20× faster performance and supports 100% annual growth with NetApp All Flash FAS

A Competitive Edge in Managed Cloud

RapidScale is a fully managed cloud provider that delivers personalized CloudServer (IaaS) and CloudDesktop (DaaS) solutions to businesses of all sizes. Facing fierce competition and 100% annual growth, RapidScale needed to eliminate storage contention and latency for highly variable customer workloads—including manufacturing and healthcare environments—so it could guarantee consistently high performance and retain customers.

RapidScale moved all production environments to NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF8060) and adopted NetApp SnapMirror and OnCommand Insight, plus deduplication and compression, to simplify operations and improve efficiency. The all‑flash approach accelerated database and virtual desktop response times up to 20× (desktop logins down 80%), removed the need for storage tuning, reclaimed engineering time, and enabled RapidScale to support rapid growth while delivering a stronger competitive offering.

RapidScale

William Hiatt

CTO